Forrest Blanton wrote: > > Is there a way to darken a PICTURE FIELD when you move your mouse over it? > If that's not possible, perhaps just any help on how you would darken a > portion of the screen would be appreciated. Here's a minor modification of the previous to show the effect with the mouse position. WINDOW 1 '-------------------------- LONG COLOR 65000,0,0 BOX FILL 10,10 TO 200,100 LONG COLOR 0,65000,0 BOX FILL 10,100 TO 200,200 LONG COLOR 0,0,0 PEN 2,2,1,10,0 BOX 15,15 TO 195,195 DO 'this could be in your dialog handler with cursor events LONG IF MOUSE(_horz)>10 AND MOUSE(_horz)<200 AND MOUSE(_vert)>10 AND MOUSE(_vert)<200 IF new%=1 THEN BOX 15,15 TO 195,195:new%=0 XELSE IF new%=0 THEN BOX 15,15 TO 195,195:new%=1 END IF UNTIL FN BUTTON -- Pierre A. Zippi ------------------ Home email: paz@... Home web: http://web2.airmail.net/paz