Hi, I have just this minute posted part#10 of the Neatpad tutorial series: "Transparent Text and Selection Highlighting" Parts#11 and #12 will be coming very soon - I have almost finished writing the tutorials for these parts and just have a few tweaks to make to the sourcecode. Hopefully these parts will be online over the weekend. cheers, James www.catch22.net Free Win32 Software, Sourcecode and Tutorials