Maybe this http://www.rs485.com/pfaq.html[^]will help.

You can find a lot of samples here in CP. One sample here[^] - NS -

You cannot just create it and set the dialog class as the parent?  Example: http://www.codeproject.com/docking/display_dialog_tooltips.asp[^].    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not! * * * If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles

I guess you are creating a new brush in every time in OnCtlColor function. if yes a simple solution would be to 1>make the brush object as a memeber of a classs 2>create thebrush object only once say in the constructor. 3>return the same handle every time in the function. 4>delete the object in the destructor. Thanks Rizwan