>>using the milliseconds delay does not allow the animation to be animated rather still and lifeless.
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>That I didn't know, as I never use AVIs. Interesting.
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>>As for the orig prob, the "* error message here." from above gets executed
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>That is the idea, to trap the error and avoid a program crash. What this tells you is that it is not being instantiated. Now you have to search for the cause. Is the VCX included in the project (and the EXE)?

yes it's included. I also unincluded to test run and I got a different message stating it was missing or couldn't find it.