Ok I am writing a game in VB and have created my board from Bitmap squares, by using the BitBlt function. However I now need to put my character on the board, but make its background transparent so it is not surrounded by a square box.

The character is in .gif format with a transparent background but when I place it on the board using BitBlt there is still a boarder on it.

Can it not be done using BitBlt? Is their another way?