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The animation window most likely will not work on a system modal form. This is because of the way that the Animation window is displayed. Remember, the player window is really two windows. First there is the child window, the one you create from your application. Then there is a second borderless windows that is carefully laid on top of the child, only its not a child window, its a parent window of the AAPLAY.DLL. This is why it can't be controlled because it really isn't owned by the application that is using the DLL. You might be able to do something with the Window handle of that borderless window, to allow it to display. Here is a clip from an e-mail that should help you get the handle information. -Brian ———————————————————— There are ways to get the window handle for the animation window. If you are using the DLL directly, there is a setting, AA_ANIMWND, that will return the handle to the animation window. You can get it using: (HWND)aaGetParm(hAnim, AA_ANIMWND); In VB, I think there is a read-only property, that returns the animation handle, and you can use that to the the window handle. There might even be a read-only property to return the animation window handle. Check the VBPLAY.VBX help file.