Thanks Mike for the support. It seems to work if the property InStatusBar is set to .f. I was trying to set step on and trace it, but it has lots of complicated code, so I gave up.

I sent Alexander a message, may be he can help me.

BTW, another problem with this control is that it could not be added in run-time, it should be placed in design-time on the form...

Thanks again.

>Hi Nadya,
>
>I'm having the same problem. In addition, the help file says:
>
>If the animation control's BackStyle property is set to 0 - Transparent, the AVI clip will be played using a transparent background rather than the background color specified in the animation clip.
>
>I've set BackStyle to 0 - Transparent but it does not work. Don't know what to do except hope Alexander can fix them.
>
>Mike.
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I'm trying to use AnimationControl from Alexander Grigoriev CommCtrl.vcx from Download section here. I want to show sendmail avi in the status bar while I'm sending e-mails. I placed the control on the form and set property of AutoPlay to .t. and InStatusBar to .t. (in design-time)
>>
>>Here is my code:
>>

>>if type('thisform.oAnimation')<>"O"
>>					thisform.newobject('oAnimation','AnimationControl','CommCtrl.vcx')
>>				endif
>>				with thisform.oAnimation
>>					.AutoPlay = .t.
>>					.InStatusBar = .t. && Display animation in Status Bar
>>					lcAVIFile = addbs(justpath(fullpath('CommCtrl.vcx')))+'AVIs\SendMail.avi'
>>					wait window transform(thisform.oAnimation.visible)
>>					set step on
>>					.open(m.lcAVIFile)
>>					lnReturn = IDSEMail('Geiss','Wellcome new Filing Dates file',m.lcText)
>>					*lnReturn = MailWithGroupWise('Geiss','Wellcome new Filing Dates file',m.lcText)
>>					.close()
>>				endwith

>>
>>However, it doesn't do anything and avi is not played in the status bar. What can I do?
>>
>>I have another animation class by Daniel Gramunt, but his class playes avi in the middle of the screen and not in the status bar...