Bernard,

Thanks for your reply. I did not know that you can also make BMPs transparent by painting those areas as white.

I will try it out. This will be cool. =)

Dennis



>>Hi Experts,
>>
>>I have a form in a timekeeping app which shows the time.
>>
>>In it, I have a timer with an interval of 1000 (1 second), which gets the current time using TIME(), then shows the corresponding image file (PNG) that represents each digit.
>>
>>Everything is fine though except for the "flickering" of the screen each time the timer fires.
>>
>>Below is my code in the Timer event:
>>
>>

>>
>>* code here assigns the image filenames to the vars
>>* 
>>WITH ThisForm
>>
>>   .LockScreen = .T.
>>   .imgHour1.Picture = lcHour1File
>>   .imgHour2.Picture = lcHour2File
>>   .imgMin1.Picture = lcMin1File
>>   .imgMin2.Picture = lcMin2File
>>   .imgSec1.Picture = lcSec1File
>>   .imgSec2.Picture = lcSec2File
>>   .LockScreen = .F.
>>
>>ENDWITH
>>
>>

>>
>>How do I stop the "flickering"?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Dennis
>
>Dennis
>
>It is known that using a PNG with VFP will cause flickering. Use a PNG only if you also want transparency.
>
>In all other cases use a BMP format image. You can easily convert your PNG to BMP. Also if you want the surrounding (background of the image) to be transparent, then colour the background White - RGB(255,255,255) and set image.BackStyle = Transparent.
>
>But the fix is to NOT use PNG but use BMP.
>
>PNG = Flicker
>BMP = No Flicker
>
>HTH
>
>Bernard