I think, the problem is with IDSEmail program, which takes too many resources. I've just tried with Daniel's class and the AVI was not playing...

Do you have ideas, how to solve it except for not showing animation at all? :)

What program do you use for e-mailing? Can you show animation while sending mails?

>Hi Nadya,
> OpenShellAvi also works with an ID or with Fullpath+filename and I use .play method to start animation. I don't remember why I did it this way or why I did not use Open method (its been a while since setting this up and it is working fine). I downloaded the new version and it still works the fine.
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>I may play around with moving to animation to the status bar when I have some time. It may be that your process is taking most of the CPU cycles and the animation is paused.
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>Elmer