>I have designed the first form to be displayed on screen as a small one (ie not maximised), but when I run this in an exe the form displays OK but with a clear white background behind it, rather than the user's Windows background. What is the
>screen setting to achieve this?
>
>Thank you

Hello

DECLARE INTEGER GetSysColor IN Win32api INTEGER
_SCREEN.BACKCOLOR=GetSysColor(1)

However, I won't do that. What if the user has a bitmap in he's desktop? Or he has ActiveDesktop enabled? Instead, I recommed to use the MDI windows background color, wich is dark grey on Win98, default appeareance settings. It can be obtained with

DECLARE INTEGER GetSysColor IN Win32api INTEGER
_SCREEN.BACKCOLOR=GetSysColor(12)

Hope this helps