is it possible to make the gfill color translucent and if so how. i know you can fade a sprite but i am looking to have a text box show the map underneath throught the fill color.

Sorry, but that's not possible with GFILL. All colors in the graphics screen are solid. If you still want a transparent box, you could probably make a 1px sprite, color it with transparency, and then scale it to cover the area you want. I haven't tried that myself, but it might work.

ithought as much and figured the salution the same as you. i will let you know if it works.

this works but for the text i had to move the 'Z' coor. to the negative for it to show up ontop of the sprite. note:i used paint to make a sprite, filling a 16x16 with one color.

I'm glad it worked out for you! I actually went ahead and tested it myself, except I used a sprite the size of a single pixel.

this is what it looks like. how did you get a sprite 1 pixel large