I am using ImageList_DrawEx to draw an icon from an ImageList control onto a DC that I have. I need to draw the icon, not the whole 16x16, so I figured using the constant they have for style, ILD_TRANSPARENT, would do it. It isnt, doing it. I use a fillrect to fill in the background color i want on the DC (a .hDC from a DrawItemStruct passed in on the WM_DRAWITEM message of a menu) , then i need to draw the icon. Im getting a 16x16 gray square wit hthe icon in the center of it. It isnt using the mask color, or only drawing the thing. Im no master of the drawing api's so does anyone have any idea how to figure out the mask color, and use it to do this correctly?

Possibly CreateCompatibleDC() then draw it on there. After that copy it to the DC that I need it on using the mask?

Gregg