Yes, you've to close shape by repeating the first coordinate at the end.

>Nevermind, I just saw your other post...
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>>See PolyPoints property of the shape control
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>I'm doing this in the INIT of the class form, but the shape never appears when the form instantiates.
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>LOCAL ARRAY laShapePoints[8,2]
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>laShapePoints[1,1] = 50
>laShapePoints[1,2] = 5
>laShapePoints[2,1] = 400
>laShapePoints[2,2] = 5
>laShapePoints[3,1] = 420
>laShapePoints[3,2] = 25
>laShapePoints[4,1] = 420
>laShapePoints[4,2] = 100
>laShapePoints[5,1] = 400
>laShapePoints[5,2] = 120
>laShapePoints[6,1] = 50
>laShapePoints[6,2] = 120
>laShapePoints[7,1] = 30
>laShapePoints[7,2] = 100
>laShapePoints[8,1] = 30
>laShapePoints[8,2] = 25
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>THIS.ADDOBJECT("shpBackground", "shape")
>THIS.shpBackGround.PolyPoints = "laShapePoints"
>THIS.shpBackGround.BackColor = RGB(171,250,173)
>THIS.shpBackGround.zOrder(1)
>THIS.shpBackGround.Visible = .T.
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