Hi David,

As far as I remember, VFP6 and VFP7 crashes if the GIF has a transparent background, this is fixed in VFP8. So I suggest that you update!

>I am attempting to show a gif file in a vfp image control, in vfp 6.
>My client sent me a word document with word art in it. I used 'save as web page in word'. This ended up creating 5 separate gif's.
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>When I open one of these gif's in the form designer, vfp6 exits. In vfp7 I get a c5 error. Other gif's open properly.
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>When I save the 5 gif's as bmp files then, they open in vfp.
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>It seems as if word created an invalid gif file that vfp crashes on. But the gifs are viewable in windows explorer or internet explorer.
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>I think I read some posts on here about validating graphics files, and vfp having a problem with this?
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>Does MS Word have a known problem with the'save as web page' option. Is that the culprit?