>> Does anyone know how to fade to back in thousands of colors? > >Pretty much impossible. But you can swap the monitor depth to 256 colors >before hand and then fade. Most games do this. >-Derek >---------------- >www2.hawaii.edu/~dereksmi As others have mentioned, I remember Derek's Fade Thousand's FB example as well. Maybe "Fading to Back" is a problem, but "Fading to Black" isn't. :) Derek, did you cheat in your Fade Thousands, and switch to 256? ;) I thought it was all done using PaintRect's anyway. Somebody write a Gamma Fading FN that works in thousands or colors. I would, but I am incompetent and unqualified in that area currently. :) Is all this type of stuff going to get broken in OS 8.5? (Device Manager?) Robert Covington