There's a project called JumpyFourm here on CodeProject. Looks much like CP. "Listen, and listen well. I really like the band N-Sync. My favorite member is Harpo. I think there's a Harpo. If not there should be. I will write their next hit, maybe 'A boom-boom chiky chiky boom-boom a boom-boom chiky chaka chaka cho cho.' By the way, you must beware of Betty's iron claw. They are sharp, and they hurt. And beware his song about big butts, he beats people up while he plays it! " - Master Tang (from Kung Pow: Enter the Fist)

Fair point. The more I think about it, the more examples occur to me that disprove my original statement. :-O --Jesse

Thanks Leppie. I will take a look. I remember talking to you earlier this year / last year about graphics libraries and the like. Did you get sorted with what you wanted? Maybe we were just nattering and you didn't need anything at all.... Jason King jason.king@profox.co.uk Feel the love at www.profox.co.uk

Have you read this: CustomAttribute : 0x0C[^] -Nick Parker

Thanks all for your help. To cut to the chase, I am cancelling my ISP subsription as I now no longer need it (except for their smtp service that is) and will upgrade by hosting package with my site hosts to include smtp (they didn't supply this originally for some reason). When I say upgrade, I mean take one of the new packages rather than the old one I have that they no longer sell..... Out of interest, does anyone know how use the smtp service that comes with IIS? I guess I could use this if only I had the knowledge (sigh).... Anyway, apologies for not returning emails. :rose: Jason King jason.king@profox.co.uk Feel the love at www.profox.co.uk

Cool, thanks again. J Jason King jason.king@profox.co.uk Feel the love at www.profox.co.uk

Thanks to the 2 people that helped me out. Neither solution really helped that much, but I did learn, so that's a good thing. In the end, to remove background rectangles, I made one big background rectangle and drew everything on that, in other words, I painted everything on one canvas (instead of one canvas per game character). This seems to have done the job nicely. If anyone wants to see the finished code, drop me a mail. :rose: Jase:rose: Jason King jason.king@profox.co.uk Feel the love at www.profox.co.uk