Mark you can test the PNG file format theory by converting one to another format and seeing if the same effect happens. Also, does this effect happen on any machine you try it on? I am thinking of graphics card and driver issues here.
>This doesn't work, because if I add a command button with a click method of:
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>thisform.LockScreen = .t.
>thisform.Refresh
>this.LockScreen = .f.
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>As soon as the last line executes, I see the background image get redrawn, and the image flashes ...
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>The only thing that I can think of is that the image is in a PNG format and 39KB in size
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>Any ideas?
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