OK so if I'd read your original post properly... for loading a still image into an image control jwshepherds code will work fine. But back to the movies!
Now if you had to change the object name, you might have used the new mediaplayer. No problem if it works for you in your application.
Getting the path right is something you need to be aware of when developing in VB, and it's best to explicitly set it. Two useful things are the App.Path property which returns the path of the application as a string... just type in the 'immediate' window of your VB editor:
Hit enter and you should see:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\MyApp
or similar. The other useful thing is the ChDir command, which sets the current directory. The 'current directory' is where VB will look for any file you specify without the full path. You'll probably want to use the directory the app runs out of for any associated files, so you can use the following statement to change the directory to the application's:
'change directory to the application's
ChDir App.Path
'load the file
mediaplayer1.filename="intro.mpg"
You can also use the App.Path property together with a filename like these examples:
mediaplayer1.filename=app.path & "\intro.mpg"
'when the files dir is a sub-dir of the application's
mediaplayer1.filename=app.path & "\music\background.mp3"
Note that the backslash has to be provided as the path doesn't include this. Beware of hard-coding paths into your program- if the user installs it somewhere else, they'll get an error when the app tries to load the file; so the method shown above is good practice.
cheers
Alan
