Thanks, Richard, for your suggestion.
I AM using FWH 2.7 March 2006, and am using the new brush transparency feature. It works fine on an ordinary dialog, or on the master dialog containing a folder (whereby it flows over all the folders as well). But I can't seem to get it to work only on a particular dialog that is placed on top of a folder. For example, I'd like to use different informative transparent brushes for each folder's dialog.
These brushes are actually pictures of various reports that serve as a background on top of which the user can enter the data that will later appear on the report. My purpose here is to eliminate as much mental abstraction as possible for the users, to make it easier for them to visualize what data they need to enter before the report they want can be printed (using different color codes on overlaid bitmap buttons for data still needed, versus data that has already been supplied).
I think this new transparent brush capability of FWH 2.7 offers an extremely powerful tool for making applications more "user friendly." Just add a little imagination, and the possiblities are limitless. Maybe the next step along this line would be the capability to use a video as a transparent brush. Just imagine what we could do with that as a built-in training tool!