popup playing of mpg dropping to back of all forms

[cdolsen]

i have an application that uses winmm.dll to play avi and mpg external video clips. the clips play correctly but the open window drops behind all other open windows. how can i keep the playing window on top since i have no control of it's attributes?

[rpeare]

do you mean the window playing the clip opens outside of MS access (i.e. you're opening the clip with a third party program outside of Access). If so you may be able to use

DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdAppMinimize

to minimize the access window

[cdolsen]

i'm using ms media player that brings up the extra window. i can't minimize access because the form i'm playing the video with has star/pause/stop/exit buttons. is here some way of playing the videos within an access form?

[rpeare]

Here's a simple example

Zip contains 2 files, the MDB and an AVI

[cdolsen]

i'm using office 97/2000 for compatibility. the example sent is for a later version. thank you any way.

[rpeare]

Converted to 97