I'm gonna ask again!(please answer)

Despite pages on pages on the subject, I haven't been able to find one example of using bltbit to make an editable, sizable transparent picture box (on a form) for images assigned to it. I want to simulate cut and paste(this parts done) but with draw transparent option just like paint when dragging cut pic. I found a good example at planetsourcecode achiving the same affect with predefined pics using regions but slow as hell with larger picBoxes and undependable to hold image. And the only thing I can find using search is a lot of predefined pics with masks. Anyone willing to share?

i don't know the answer but you told me to answer so here you go

At least I know there's someone out there - Thanks!

Turns out a lot of what I'm tring to do is better addressed with reading the bitmap into memory at the bit level and changing the bits accordingly to create both the picture and mask at same time. Found various examples that could be put together to achive this. I'm impressed that I have the process down to about 2 seconds, but think I can do it all in one step and bring it to milliseconds. I'll post some code when I finally get a handle on the whole thing.

sounds interesting i wouldn't mind seeing the code when you are done i might be able to learn somthing from it :D