#realJSOP wrote: it's about what it looks like to the *team*. Exactly. I write code so with the view that someone else (even if it is me) will need to understand it months or even years after I wrote it.

The control has a method that causes it to render itself to a bitmap. It's called DrawToBitmap. Use that to create a copy of your control in a bitmap, then you can manipulate it. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.