Frank,

Do not know what do you want to achieve, but here in the download section you can find a couple of gradient color solutions.

>Hi Mike,
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>thanks, I had found that link, but didn't want to pay for it as I have never come across an API function that someone wasn't able to help me with. It turns out that using this function with VFP is very difficult due to the way VFP forms hwnds are handled, so I can't use it anyhow. :(
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>Thanks for the suggestion.
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>Frank