I am capturing the entire Desktop, creating a bitmap, and then using GDI BitBlt to draw the bitmap as a background image on the Render Target in D3DIM. I would rather be able to capture specific rectangles of various sizes from the desktop. It appeared that using creating a HRGN and then GetDCEx and/or SelectClipRegion might work, but I have not had any success. It may be that I just don''t understand these functions, or I am on the wrong track. Any suggestions and/or some sample code would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Karl Fisher karl@hsnp.com Hot Springs Village, Arkansas KarlFisher