Hi

I have 2 picture box controls. One with a sprite image and another with a mask image. I draw the mask and sprite on another picture box to draw the sprite with a transperant background. Using BitBlt for the same.

This works fine as long as the picbox controls containing the sprite and mask pictures are visible on the screen. if I make them invisible during run time, the sprite is not drawn with the transperancy on the third pic box.

I do not the want the first two controls to be visible during run time. Any work around for this?

thanx in advance