Will,

Thanks for the warning, but since I never change color schemes inside VFP it's never been an issue in any of my apps.

>This is not quite true..
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>Try changing your colour scheme, you will end up with your buttons staying the same colour (grey) and the rest of the application background a different colour.
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>It's not that hard to make a proper .msk, just open the bmp, convert it to monochrome (In MS paint, Image attributes, Black and white) then flood fill the inside of the icon with black.. then save as .MSK