avi file only plays when mouse is in motion

[simply amazing]

I am trying to play an avi file in Labview 6.  The file plays fine until I click anywhere on the program.  After that, the video will only play if the mouse is moving. 

[sarahk]

Hi, simply amazing.

That's strange; I haven't found any reference to a LabVIEW bug causing that behavior. My reocmmendation is to make sure you're calling the .avi file correctly. Are you using ActiveX? You may want to check out this KnowledgeBase on playing avi files in LabVIEW. Let me know if that doesn't fix the problem and we'll keep working on this.

Have a nice evening!

[simply amazing]

i am using ActiveX to play the .avi file.  The other thing i forgot to mentio is that i am using a mouse property node for a blank picture located behind the windows media player object so that i can determine coordinates on the video.  i think this may be involved becuase the video stops playing altogether when the mouse is over the picture.

[sarahk]

Hi, simply amazing.

Ahh, I bet the event structure is a contributor this behavior. It's easy to get into unexpected situations with the event structure, but it's difficult to debug at a distance. Would you mind posting a screenshot of your block diagram so I can take a look?

Thanks!

[simply amazing]

I figured it out. I had the program waiting for a click event on the screen, so something was making the video play strange.  I just added a prompt before the click was made so the video play and the screen click were separated.  Thanks for your help.