Can anyone help me or point me in the correct direction?

I would like to fade both 8 and 16 or 24 bitmaps to black from within
Visual Basic.  I am using VB 4.

Thanks,

Martyn.

Forget fading the 16 and 24-bit bitmaps using palette routines (since
they are only workable in 8-bit depths or less).    I have developed a
generalized approach that does not{*filter*}around with palettes.  But
rather,  "dissolves" the bitmap using 1 pixel-wide blts to a background
image (or a solid color if you prefer).  I have a free source project on

post from Jim Deutch on this subject, but as he has stated ( and I have
learned the hard way), screwing around with palette animation routines is
not trivial, and you can run into problems if the display device doesn't
support palettes.