Hi Kevin,

>I had already downloaded a gradient class from VFPX. It is calling Object to add a
>background image to the container/form it's on.

The gdiplus library has a canvas object (class imgcanvas in gdiplus.vcx). You can use this to draw anything on the image. There are also samples to draw filled shapes as well as several samples for creating gradients. For a brief tutorial on using the canvas class, check out Cesar's blog: http://weblogs.foxite.com/cesarchalom/archive/2007/03/20/3535.aspx