>Too bad you need to have a caption on the form for it to work.

Eric is right off corse (as always :-)

Try this:

------------Form.Load
LOCAL INTEGER hr

DECLARE INTEGER CreateEllipticRgn IN gdi32 INTEGER X1 , INTEGER Y1 , INTEGER X2 , INTEGER Y2
DECLARE INTEGER SetWindowRgn IN user32 INTEGER HWND, INTEGER hRgn , INTEGER bRedraw

SET LIBR TO ( HOME()+'foxtools.fll' )

WITH THIS
.Caption = "just a caption to find"
.Movable = .T.
lnwhandle = _WFindTitl(.Caption)
HWND = _WhToHWnd(lnwhandle)

.Caption = ""
.Movable = .F.

.AutoCenter = .T.
hr = CreateEllipticRgn(0, 0, .Width, .Height)

SetWindowRgn(HWND, hr, 1)

.AddObject('s','Shape')
ENDWITH

WITH THIS.s
.Left=-1
.Top=-1
.Width=THIS.Width-4
.Height=THIS.Height-4
.Curvature = 99
.BorderWidth=3
.BorderColor=RGB(128,128,128)
.ZOrder(1)

.Visible = .T.

ENDWITH

LOCAL INTEGER hr

DECLARE INTEGER CreateEllipticRgn IN gdi32 INTEGER X1 , INTEGER Y1 , INTEGER X2 , INTEGER Y2
DECLARE INTEGER SetWindowRgn IN user32 INTEGER HWND, INTEGER hRgn , INTEGER bRedraw

SET LIBR TO ( HOME()+'foxtools.fll' )

WITH THIS
.Caption = "just a caption to find"
.Movable = .T.
lnwhandle = _WFindTitl(.Caption)
HWND = _WhToHWnd(lnwhandle)

.Caption = ""
.Movable = .F.

.AutoCenter = .T.
hr = CreateEllipticRgn(0, 0, .Width, .Height)

SetWindowRgn(HWND, hr, 1)

.AddObject('s','Shape')
ENDWITH

WITH THIS.s
.Left=-1
.Top=-1
.Width=THIS.Width-4
.Height=THIS.Height-4
.Curvature = 99
.BorderWidth=3
.BorderColor=RGB(128,128,128)
.ZOrder(1)

.Visible = .T.

ENDWITH
----------------------

You may also add a 3D bmp background (something like Norton SafeGuard!)
For me, I use that in the Splash screen!
Also if anyone interested :

there is another neat API function but couldn't get it to work:

HRGN CreatePolygonRgn(
CONST POINT *lppt, // pointer to array of points
int cPoints, // number of points in array
int fnPolyFillMode // polygon-filling mode
)

HRGN : Integer
int : Integer
POINT :
struct{
LONG x;
LONG y;
} POINT
LONG : Integer
POINT * : pointer to an array of POINT structure
it'll be very nice if someone out there do some more investigations and come out with a FancySplach class that can be of any shape, i would if i only have the time.
Waleed