Thanks Alexandre

That info I did not know and its very helpfull to know. I'm still getting odd colours when I'm set to 256 colours, mind you I've done this and that to try and solve it but I'm getting odd flashing colours now and again. Is there anyway to get a copy of the VFP Default Palette do you know ?

Or perhaps what I should do is attempt to generate a big BMP with all the colours that I need so that VFP loads it first or something ?

I'm using a good few "full colour" BMP's that I've reduced in color but its still causing problems.

cheers

Mike