>I have a class that displays a wait dialogue with a little avi animation. The problem I'm having is that when I put the executable in a different directory, on that doesn't have the wait.avi file in it, it gives me an error saying it can't find the file, even though, in the project manager, I am including the file.
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>Any idea on how I can get this so I don't have to copy the avi with the executable when I distrobute it?
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>Ohh, and everything else works fine... images and icons get included with no problems.
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The activex you're using requires file on disk because it cannot see files included in exe. You've to either distribute AVI as a separate file or copy it out at your app start.

Strtofile(Filetostr("wait.avi"), "wait.avi"))

You can check if file already exists and skip copying in this case.