On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:08:30PM +0000, Robert Harrison wrote: > I'm a bit crap at this stuff but could you explain the myALPHA var. It's just a Uint8 (or int or unsigned char, or whatever) between 0 and 255 ;) -bill! -- bill at newbreedsoftware.com Hire me! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/resume/