playing avi ...

[emcdan61]

I'm playing the "filecopy.avi" on a form while my file copy is in progress. (Duh!) I've got the background set to transparent. It does dissapear (the background) when I am in the designer, but when the form is running I see a kinda pukie purple background. It makes no difference how the background is set.

How can I correct this so my "informative" screen is pretty?

TIA

 

[rgbean]

You need to provide more infomation for the situation. What version and SP level of VFP? What control are you using to play the .AVI file? If it's not a VFP control, what version are you using? What OS are you running? Do you have themes enabled? Does this happen on other OS's?

Rick

 

[emcdan61]

vfp 7.0 w/sp1, windows 2000, can't say about other OSs only OS I need this for.

ffc/_multimedia.vcx, class videoplayer

 

[rgbean]

OK,
It appears that's this due to the file itself - try running it in Media Player, same "purple" background!

There is probably some property that the MCI API uses to set the a transparent color, but I haven't had a need to played with this.

I hope that someone else has been there before!

Rick