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   Newyana2,   
      
   > GDI gets very complicated. Gdiplus is worse.   
      
   I've used both, but have not tried anything complicated with it.   
      
   > Recently I've been working on functionality to change caret width   
   > and color in a text window. The way to do it is to use a bitmap.   
      
   That makes me remember something ..Oh yes, there it is.  Maybe its useful to   
   you :   
      
   https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240916-00/?p=110272   
      
   > But in VB6 there's the Picturebox control. Lightweight   
   > and it wraps a lot of GDI ops.   
   ...   
   > Maybe you have something like that with Borland?   
      
   :-) Thats the nice thing of using an Assembler : No programming-language   
   provided wrappers around anything, you have to (understand and) write all of   
   them yourself.   
      
   ... which is also its downside.   
      
   But with me being me I normally have little problem with that.  Even though   
   that leads to problems as my current one.   
      
   > I sometimes use Image controls and sometimes use resources,   
   > but never an imagelist.   
      
   If you have ever used a List- or TreeView showing icons (including   
   sorting-direction arrows and tickboxes) than you have used an ImageList.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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