thank you Sebastian it worked with me so good i appreciate you help. the rest of you guys , i am sorry that i am not genius as you, but i don't think there is problem to get some help with other and i guess that's the whole point of this form i know i am not professional and i didn't say that i am but i am doing my best in learning modified on Friday, January 16, 2009 6:18 AM

Thankx alot !!! i thought taht there is something else:)

Drawing Arcs is pretty much a "no go" in the Compact Framework using GDI+. You can accomplish Arc's using GDI directly or you can look at XRossOne (on the Microsoft site) or GAPI (also on Microsoft). Both are basically wrappers around GDI. You can also look at DirectX on Mobile. GapiDraw is another option (commercial product - never used it...). This of course adds dependencies to your application. Another option is to use DrawEllipse and then 'Erase' those areas you dont want to display by repainting the background. This is a bit of a hack though. I eventually decided that I would Chamfer the corners of my images and the results are reasonable but admittedly they are not arcs. If you find a decent solution please respond at let me know. Regards, David -- modified at 13:23 Wednesday 28th February, 2007