It appears that Win8 does not support all of the GDI functions.  I used GDI+ to produce a rounded rectangle with a color fading from one color to another.  The rounded rectangle appears but not the color fade.  Is there an alternative to GDI+ that will work in win7 and wn8?
SUB RoundRectangle(WINDOW win,INT l,INT t,INT Width,INT Height,INT Rad,UINT border,UINT lfill,UINT fill)
	POINTER pPen=0,pGraphics=0,pBrush=0,pPath=0,mBrush=0
	POINTL GpStart,GpEnd
	INT phdc,pchdc
	IF (!gdi_ret)		
		phdc = win.m_hPrintDC
		win.m_hPrintDC=GETHDC(win)
		SelectClipRgn(phdc,0)
		IntersectClipRect(phdc,l,t,Width,Height)
		hdc=gethdc(win)
		GdipCreateFromHDC(hdc, &pGraphics)
		GdipSetSmoothingMode(pGraphics,SmoothingModeAntiAlias)	
		GdipCreatePath(0,&pPath)
	
		GdipStartPathFigure(pPath)
			GdipAddPathArcI(pPath,l,t,rad,rad,180.0,90.0)
			GdipAddPathLineI(pPath,l+rad,t,l+Width-rad,t)
			GdipAddPathArcI(pPath,l+Width-rad,t,rad,rad,270.0,90.0)
			GdipAddPathLineI(pPath,l+Width,t+rad,l+Width,t+Height-rad)
			GdipAddPathArcI(pPath,l+Width-rad,t+Height-rad,rad,rad,0.0,90.0)
			GdipAddPathLineI(pPath,l+Width-rad,t+Height,l+rad,t+Height)
			GdipAddPathArcI(pPath,l,t+Height-rad,rad,rad,90.0,90.0)
		GdipClosePathFigure(pPath)
		GpStart.x=l+(Width*0.25f):GpStart.y=t
		GpEnd.x=l+(Width*0.75f):GpEnd.y=t+Height
		GdipCreateLineBrushI(GpStart, GpEnd, lfill, fill, 1, &pBrush)		
		GdipCreatePen1(border,2,UnitPixel,&pPen)
		
		GdipFillPath(pGraphics,pBrush,pPath)
		GdipDrawPath(pGraphics,pPen,pPath)
		'Cleanup
		IF pPath THEN GdipDeletePath(pPath)
		IF pBrush THEN GdipDeleteBrush(pBrush)
		IF mBrush THEN GdipDeleteBrush(mBrush)
		IF pPen THEN GdipDeletePen(pPen)
		IF pGraphics then GdipDeleteGraphics(pGraphics)
		
		RELEASEHDC win,hdc
		pchdc=win.m_hPrintDC
		win.m_hPrintDC=phdc
		RELEASEHDC win,pchdc
	ELSE
		'no gdi
	ENDIF
ENDSUB
Later,
Clint
			
			
			
				Clint,
Don't know whether these will help you or not, but they're handy to have on hand, anyway
I've converted them to IWB format. Don't forget to make a .lib file!
Brian
			
			
			
				Thanks Brian,  will take a look.
Later,
Clint
			
			
			
				That still uses "gdi32" since it is only a wrapper.  Is it possible to fade from one color to another on Win8 using IWB?
Later,
Clint
			
			
			
				Sorry, I don't have a win8 machine to test on.