I want to place a badged icon in a picture field unfortunately there is a strange ring that shows up around the caution or stop icons in the picture that does not show up if you just plot the icon in the window - running carbon The caution and stop icons look horrible in carbon classic but does not have the strange ring. Any suggestions on how to make this look good in both carbon and carbon classic. Thanks, W. register off local fn plotMyIconRef(r as ^rect, iconRef as IconRef) register on dim @ btnR as Rect dim err as long long if iconRef > _" " // if iconRef is a 4 character code then get system icon err = fn GetIconRef( 0, _kSystemIconsCreator, iconRef, @iconRef) end if err = FN PlotIconRef (#r,_kAlignNone,_kTransformNone,_kIconServicesNormalUsageFlag,iconRef) end fn local fn createBadgedIcon( alertType as long ) dim osErr as OSErr dim thisPSN as ProcessSerialNumber dim processInfo as ProcessInfoRec dim @iconRef as IconRef dim as FSSpec fs dim as rect r,badgeR,frameR dim as handle @ pictH dim @label as SInt16 dim & processInfo.processInfoLength = sizeof( ProcessInfoRec ) processInfo.processName = _nil // don't want processInfo.processAppSpec = fs osErr = fn GetCurrentProcess( thisPSN ) osErr = fn GetProcessInformation( thisPSN, processInfo ) osErr = FN GetIconRefFromFile (fs,IconRef,label) call setrect(frameR,0,0,64,64) badgeR.right = frameR.right badgeR.bottom = frameR.bottom badgeR.left = frameR.right - ((frameR.right - frameR.left)/2) badgeR.top = frameR.bottom - ((frameR.bottom - frameR.top)/2) //call offsetrect(frameR, 20, 20) //call offsetrect(badgeR, 20, 20) PICTURE ON (0,0)-(64,64) select alertType case _kAlertStopAlert fn plotMyIconRef( frameR, _kAlertStopIcon) fn plotMyIconRef( badgeR, IconRef) case _kAlertCautionAlert fn plotMyIconRef( frameR, _kAlertCautionIcon) fn plotMyIconRef( badgeR, IconRef) case _kAlertNoteAlert fn plotMyIconRef( frameR, IconRef) // no badge on note alerts end select PICTURE OFF, pictH SetRect(r, 20, 20, 84, 84) //PICTURE FIELD #1 ,&pictH,@r,_pfTransparent,_cropPict PICTURE FIELD #1 ,&pictH,@r,_pfNoFramed,_cropPict end fn window 1 fn createBadgedIcon( _kAlertStopAlert ) //fn createBadgedIcon( _kAlertCautionAlert ) //fn createBadgedIcon( _kAlertNoteAlert ) do handleevents until 0