>>>In VFP you can use BMPs with white background RGB(255,255,255). VFP will make them transparent.
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>>Yeah I know but my icon has white in the actual image content (in the main area) so that doesn't work that well.
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>You can make your white in the main area almost white - 255,255,254.

Hi,

To make the pure white (255,555,255) into dirty white ( 255,255,254) Cesar posted a very handy solution using VFP and GDIPlus.app, search his valuable blog.
Regards,

Koen