Quote Originally Posted by moeur
why not set the Backstyle property of the usercontrol to transparent?
Then you can use the maskpicture and maskcolor properties if you want to.
Yeah, there was a reason that I wasn't using those properties, but as I thought about it, I simplified my control design so that these properties would work for me.

(And, since I'm still relatively new to creating custom controls, I sometimes forget that this kind of built-in functionality is there. )