>I am told that it is not possible to do something like that for commandbuttons, pagetabs, checkboxes of VFP because they are not really windows controls. I saw a question you asked that indicates you are trying. It would be wonderful.

It's possible, it just takes a bit of trickery.

And Pablo did it the hard way. It's much easier to set a particular parameter in SetLayeredWindowAttributes(). No, I'm not telling. :-) I tried the CreatePolygonRgn() route, and it's a pain.