>>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.
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>Hi Timothy,
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>Did something change in your environment? E.g. did you install something recently? The OCX which animation class uses may be somehow replaced with the wrong version or something weird along these lines happened. Try to put break in the animation class Init method. Which VFP version are you using?

Hi Nadya, We recently updated all our systems with microsoft's updates. This is the only thing I can think of. Todays UPDATE * * *. For no apparant reason, it just starting working again properly as if I was dreaming all this. I come in this am and just tried it and bingo, magic with no fix applied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!