David,

As always you are very helpful. I opened in paint and resaved. Worked like a charm. BTW - to clarify/correct what I originally said: 1) When opening the bad gif in vfp6 - the gif shows as just a black image, in vfp7 - crashes.

Haven't tried vfp8 yet - this project is a vfp 6 app.

I'll email the files to you separately. Let me know what you find. Thanks again.


>David,
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>Can you open your gif in paint and resave it as a new gif?
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>This won't help you much with your current problem, but can you by chance test the bad gif in the Europa beta? If not email me the gif and I can test it and submit a bug report for you.
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>>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?