Gudday Sara,

Depends on the format of your animation, (nothing easy with a programming language right). Ok vb will handle avi with no problems, go to the components option on one of the pull down menus, (don't have vb installed on this PC, think the top level menu option is Project). Go down the options till you get too two Microsoft common controls, one of these will play avi.

If the animation is a gif you will need to get the gif89 ocx control, which l can email to you if you want it, (will include a demo project).

Ok putting the M&M animation on a cmdbtn may be a slight problem, have a look at the cmdbtn properties, there is one called something like "TYPE" set this to graphical, and then use the Picture property to point at your animation.

Try looking at www.planetsourcecode.com, they may have an answer for you.

Hope this helps.