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I just wrote my own. Its not that hard, and since the commerical packages usually don't really have what I need, why compromise if its very very important to your application?? 99% of the time I try to find what I need.....when it comes to charting my data though.....well since thats what people spend their time using, it seems wise for me to spend my time making that charts present information EXACTLY as I want it to be presented.

C++ is more of concepts than as a language. It's a methodology of Programming. Using Data Encapsulation, we achieve Data Abstraction. Because of this Data Abstraction, we would think of problem in terms of real-life objects ( the way we are used to more ). This enhances your chance for better solution. Moreover, It's better to have 'Divide and Conquer' - better to build entities which are self-supporting - encapsulating data along with methods. -- Don't look C++ as a language - its' concept --

"In any organization worth it's salt..." What's this got to do with Microsoft? :-)

Andy, what you're working on looks brilliant! If you do want someone to help test it I'd love a copy as I'm sure this problem will come up again and I also like the idea of having the resources sorted alphabetically (obsessive? me?? :-)). Either way, good luck developing it and if I can help in any way let me know. From your webpage it looks like one of those projects that starts off looking simple but turns out to be quite complex if you want to do it right. (Unloading the project and all that.) Cheers, Le

Unsure but maybe this helps http://www.geocities.com/simesgreen/gllife/index.html regardz Colin Davie

Here are the figures that I think constitute a geek: Questionable hygeine - 80% Inability to fit in socially - 50% (they have other geek friends) Inability to relax - 20% (not true, they have Star Trek reruns to watch) Bad Posture - 80% (Mr. Burns from the Simpsons comes to mind) No dress sense - 100% (this is true) Geek pasttimes (computer games, Star Trek) - 100%, 100% (lots of people play computer games(but lots of nerds do), but only nerds watch Star Trek) Cheap - 10% (they need to buy Star Trek and Star Wars stuff

Sorry

That article must have been written by somebody who has never been to Western Canada. I've lived in Calgary for 3 years and I've seen 3 major snow storms and snow is never on the ground longer than few days until a Chinook blows in and melts everything. Who can forget during the 1988 Winter Olypmics when the temeratures during a Chinook in Calgary were higher than in parts of Florida?! The most snow I have ever seen in Canada (not counting getting face shots while skiing in the B.C. interior) are in Montreal and Ottawa. A agree with Tim, those cities are just stunningly beautiful after a snow fall, which is often. Somebody was asking for good weather sites (David?), my favourite is http://weather.ec.gc.ca/index\_e.shtml which seems the most accurate.

OK. Brits call: 1,000,000 a million and 1,000,000,000,000 a billion (not a trillion) (A billion is a million million) (1,000,000,000 is a thousand million) But, I think the world is starting to standardise on the American billion (1,000,000,000), even in Britain

It's not a copyright issue, but a patent issue. Patents are related to ideas, while copyright to physical implementations. Having said this, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Microsoft is really just covering it's ass here, preventing someone else from patenting the idea and then forcing THEM to license it. I doubt highly that MS would come after anyone for patent licensing (they've never done so, except when they've been sued first, such as with Stac). But it's up to you.

Thanks mate. I think I'm going to call it quits a little earlier than usual today :

Thanks, all the other explanations were good but this was the easiest to understand. Thanks JoeW

G'Day Chris, And a happy birthday from down south. I don't know where we'd be without our regular fix of developer brain food from CP. Try not to work too hard on your birthday, and have a cold one for me. All the best, Neville Frank

Just ask Jakob Nielsen :-) "Why Frames Suck"

Hmm... I tried populating the list BEFORE I changed the font and it worked. Further investigation revealed that the InsertItem calls were failing if the font had been set. Although InsertItem is not documented as indicating the error reason (sigh!), GetLastError consistently returned 1004 (invalid flag). The only flag I could find relating to fonts was TVIS_BOLD, but setting this has no effect. I am a bit worried that I don't understand why it works one way and not the other. Ideas appreciated! For now, I'll hope it continues to work so long as I populate before setting the font.

It kind of depends what sorts of things you require of your scripting language... If you just want to do some minimal things, I'd just add support for active scripting to your app (plenty of info floating about on how to do this for MFC and non-MFC app), and then you can choose whatever language you want, as there are many that support active scripting. (vbs, jscript, python, etc..) If you care about speed, then I'd suggest Lua, as it's very fast, and designed to be embedded into other apps (this is something python is lousy at). Lua Homepage: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/ There are some C-like script languages too, like EiC. If you would like real VBA-like scripting, then there is a commercial product from www.cypressinc.com that is fast, and easy to integrate. I've used active scripting, cypress enable, and now I'm using Lua on a project. There are lots of script languages out there, so spend some time evaluating them, and looking at their communities

Ow, my head hurts. :