I need to do the same thing...did you ever figure it out? Gary Kirkham A working Program is one that has only unobserved bugs I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks

Yes, don't use a JPEG. Rather use an animated GIF if the image is small or use Flash for larger animations. If that is not helpful then please explain what you are trying to achieve and we can help more :) regards, Paul Bluegrass South Africa Ravi Bhavnani wrote: it's sold on EBay and shipped from China (on how to inspire confidence in your product) Crikey! ain't life grand?

There's no property that helps you doing that. You have to draw the text on your own. Look at the MSDN library for the Graphics.DrawString method to see an example. Greets, Dave

I used WM_PRINT. This gives me the bitmap of all controls in the form, but the form area appears black?