You must set the color for the combobox, if the control send a Color-message. HBRUSH CxxxView::OnCtlColor(CDC* pDC, CWnd* pWnd, UINT nCtlColor) { HBRUSH hbr = CFormView::OnCtlColor(pDC, pWnd, nCtlColor); if ( pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID()==IDC_Status) { pDC->SetBkColor(SetColorRef(background)); //SetColorRef returns a RGB-value hbr=m_hBrush[background]; //global defined brush-table } return hbr; } SFr

:: You know IE can draw many image formats. but, without a Unisys license, using it to draw GIF is illegal. if you like, i can find the MS page where they state this. -c

i think this way could work: overwrite or go into InitDialog (WM_INITDIALOG) and set here the font for the label. I hope that is correct, because it's only a part of 16-bit-code-application (MFC). I believe IDC_ErrorA was a Label. //define at the top of your cpp-file CFont m_biggerFont; //must be are here, global in View for Paint() void Cxx_View::OnInitialUpdate() { LOGFONT logfont; CRect rect; // get edit control size GetDlgItem(IDC_ErrorA)->GetWindowRect(&rect); ScreenToClient(&rect); // in parent coordinate memset(&logfont, 0, sizeof(logfont)); logfont.lfHeight = int ((rect.bottom-rect.top)); logfont.lfWeight = FW_BOLD; switch(FontType) { case 0: strcpy(logfont.lfFaceName, "MS Sans Serif");break; default: strcpy(logfont.lfFaceName, "MS Sans Serif"); } VERIFY(m_biggerFont.CreateFontIndirect(&logfont)); GetDlgItem(IDC_BigA)->SetFont(&m_biggerFont,TRUE); GetDlgItem(IDC_BigA)->UpdateWindow(); ... }

How can you select a region into a DC ? Region can only be selected as clipping region, meta region, or used in PaintRgn directly.