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Hi, I purchased the Animation Support Developers kit. I used it to write a simple screen saver to show my flic files. When I execute the aaOpen command, the Copyright Notice of Autodesk shows up on my application's splash screen. Is there an easy way of stopping this from happening? I have noticed that there are other screen savers, Freest.zip, for example that use aaplay.dll without the Autodesk splash screen showing up. I read in VBPLAY.TXT that AAOpen and AAClose are not realy needed for visual basic applications, but I don't have VB. When I tried leaving aaOpen out of my C++ program, it caused a GPF when the flic was loaded. I have also read ASL_DIST.TXT that says that I am allowed to modify players to suppress the Copyright notice. In fact there is even a modified aaplay.exe posted here on CSERVE that does just that. It would be easy to pull aaplay.dll into app. studio and change the about box id to 444 causing it to fail. But, I would rather not modify and distribute someone elses DLL. What is the best way to solve this problem? BobZilla