<HTML> <title> META_SETBKCOLOR </title> <BODY link="#CC0000" alink="#FF3300" vlink="#330099" text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff" background="pics/weave.jpg"> <H1> NAME</H1> META_SETBKCOLOR <H1> NEAREST API CALL</H1> <PRE>#include <windows.h> COLORREF SetBkColor ( HDC32 hdc, COLORREF color );</PRE> <H1> DESCRIPTION</H1> <TABLE BORDER > <TR> <TD>U16</TD> <TD>Value</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>0</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2">COLORREF</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>1</TD> </TR> </TABLE> When the <a href="SetBkMode.html">BkMode</a> is set to OPAQUE, the color that SETBKCOLOR sets is the color that will be used as the background color for <UL> <LI> the box that is the background to text.</LI> <LI> the color that shows through the transparent areas of hatched brushes and styled (dashed) lines.</LI> <LI> and for the background color when converting bitmaps to monochrome and vice versa, though i havent figured out if this last point has any revelence to a metafile converter.</LI> </UL> <p><a href="support.html">back</a> </BODY> </HTML>