Hi,

One other thing worth mentioning is that it's a good idea to make the image monochrome (Ie 2 colours) before saving it..

This makes all the colours black and all the whites white.. and flood fill is usually quite easy to do from this point

I have a feeling Dustin may have been after an automatic process but I don't know of any.

Will

>>Hi @ all
>>
>>How can I create *.msk files from my *.bmp files?
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>>Thx
>>Dustin
>
>Dustin,
>This is from help file as is :
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>"Using Picture Masks
>Often, a .bmp picture contains white space you don't want to appear on your controls. A white border around an irregularly shaped image could make your control look bad. To avoid this problem, Visual FoxPro creates a temporary default mask for your picture. White areas are given a transparent attribute so that the underlying color of the button or background shows through. To keep certain white areas of your .bmp white, create a mask for it that will override the default.
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>To create a mask for a .bmp
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>Open the .bmp file in Paint or another bitmap utility.
>Blacken all areas of the picture that you want to be displayed exactly as they are in the .bmp file. Leave the areas you want to be transparent as white.
>Save the file in the same directory and with the same name as the .bmp file but with an .msk extension."
>
>Cetin