such drawing problems can be solved via drawing in a memory bitmap and only blitting it to screen. That articles is a great example HOW TO do it: Link: CEnBitmap Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany

oh i'm using the pDC to draw the rectangle. That one I'm just testing out with the link given by Chandrasekharanp I'm taking pDC out now and try your method. But after i put below code, and execute it then the button went dissapear void CCustomEdit::PreSubclassWindow() { CRect rcItem; this->GetClientRect(&rcItem); CRgn rgn; rgn.CreateRoundRectRgn(rcItem.left, rcItem.top, rcItem.right, rcItem.bottom, 50, 50); SetWindowRgn( (HRGN)rgn.Detach(), TRUE ); CEdit::PreSubclassWindow(); } good

Do i Change the WM_CTLCOLOR on my CCustomStatusBar or on the MainFrm ? KH good

Either I am misunderstanding you, or you are misunderstanding the API. The transparent colour is the colour in the original bitmap that you want to become transparent. I normally use a hideous shade of purple, or pink. I'm too manly to use them for actual display. There is nothing stopping you using a certain shade of gray (RGB(73,73,73)), but it will be less obvious when you are editing the original bitmap. For debugging the sort of problem you have, I strongly recommend the excellent article http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/imageviewer.aspx[^] by PJ Arends. Iain. Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...

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thanks ! ^^ got it worked out :-\ good

oh thanks !! Its a great article ^^ good

I cant find any ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI in the mainFrame's Properties >> Messages Is it I have to create my own UPDATE_COMMAND_UI ?? good

To change the background color of MenuBar, simply add below's line of code, beginning of mainframe OnCreate CBrush* NewBrush; NewBrush = new CBrush; NewBrush->CreateSolidBrush(RGB(139,137,137)); MENUINFO MenuInfo = {0}; MenuInfo.cbSize = sizeof(MenuInfo); MenuInfo.hbrBack = *NewBrush; // Brush you want to draw MenuInfo.fMask = MIM_BACKGROUND; MenuInfo.dwStyle = MNS_AUTODISMISS; CMenu* pMenu = this->GetMenu(); if(IsMenu(pMenu->m_hMenu)) { SetMenuInfo(pMenu->m_hMenu, &MenuInfo); } As for Toolbar's background color, create OnNotify at MainFrame, put below's code LPNMHDR pnmh = (LPNMHDR) lParam; if(pnmh->hwndFrom == m_wndToolBar.m_hWnd) { LPNMTBCUSTOMDRAW lpNMCustomDraw = (LPNMTBCUSTOMDRAW) lParam; CRect rect; m_wndToolBar.GetClientRect(rect); FillRect(lpNMCustomDraw->nmcd.hdc, rect, (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(GRAY_BRUSH)); } return CFrameWnd::OnNotify(wParam, lParam, pResult); Thanks for those who helped me. I'm giving out the solution i've got. good