>>That's true, but if you create a shape, you can then drop it on the page of the pageframe, and do all your computations relative to the page's top/left; grab the control in question, compute it's midpoint, the top/left, the hypotenuse is the longest distance from the center of the circle, and that should be the radius of the circle, then just drop it right in place!
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>While its possible, you're limiting your indicator to a 2D non eliptical shape. Windows XP guidelines explicily call for some dude dressed in a wizard outfit to run accross the screen insuliting the user for putting the wrong value in the control.

My FoxSpeaker application implemented both higlighting the active control with a red shape rectangle around it and the wizard dude to point to it long before Windows XP. Hmm... should I ask for royalties? :)))