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visit mozilla and download full source: Look for fegui.cpp and set breakpoints.... Bri ( Dropping crappy NetScape he he?) ================== The original message was: Hi! Has anyone figured out how to get information from Netscape's registry format nsreg.dat? I need to get out the user profile list and the user profile location. Thanks... Y.Z.

visit mozilla and download full source: Look for fegui.cpp and set breakpoints.... Bri ( Dropping crappy NetScape he he?) ================== The original message was: Hi! Has anyone figured out how to get information from Netscape's registry format nsreg.dat? I need to get out the user profile list and the user profile location. Thanks... Y.Z.

You can retrieve the Windows 200 SDK from Microsoft's website. http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/psdk/sdkintro/mainport.htm Here you can find examples and information on them. You can also download the PlatformSDK for January 2000 if you wish too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/platform.asp And then Click "Platform SDK Setup" under the Installation Heading. Hope it helps, -Erik ================== The original message was: I have seen several apps on Win98 that use softshape's ActiveSkin ActiveX control. Mostly this control allows people to haev a coherent means for creating skinned 'applications'. It includes one function that allows you to set a transparency level. If you download the control right from softshape you can use the Visual Studio tools to view the interfaces their control provides. There is an app called BoxCard @ http://softini.cjb.net that uses this feature and will let you see it in action I've tried several things briefly to try and implement some transluceny. It is pretty easy to make a translucent menu or dialog as long as it is WITHIN a frame window or something. You can just make owner draw controls that get the parentdc and alphablend the control DC with the parents. This works really well if you have a stable bitmap background. However, this become very hard to do when you have other windows moving around behind a translucent control or you try to do this on the windows desktop. Win2K provides a LayeredWindow to help with this. Does anyone have access to a W2K dev kit that contains this implementation? I check my VC 6 for this but it does not seem to be included. I'd like to see how they did this. I also considered it might be possible to control how windows draws the window, after all - doing this can't befar off from what programs like eFX and WindowBlinds have been doing to change the frame bars on existing windows already. - Eric Any suggestions? I plan on putting all this info together with some other controls I've made and putting it up on the web with source. MFc is nice, but its really easy to think of semi-simple things that are very diffculut to do - like change an image on a static control (w/o hiding an existing one and displaying a new control) Anyways, I'm getting off on a tangent. Please let me know you thoughts or tips. - Eric crahen@buffalo.edu DrCrahen@mad.scientist.

You can retrieve the Windows 200 SDK from Microsoft's website. http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/psdk/sdkintro/mainport.htm Here you can find examples and information on them. You can also download the PlatformSDK for January 2000 if you wish too. http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/platform.asp And then Click "Platform SDK Setup" under the Installation Heading. Hope it helps, -Erik ================== The original message was: I have seen several apps on Win98 that use softshape's ActiveSkin ActiveX control. Mostly this control allows people to haev a coherent means for creating skinned 'applications'. It includes one function that allows you to set a transparency level. If you download the control right from softshape you can use the Visual Studio tools to view the interfaces their control provides. There is an app called BoxCard @ http://softini.cjb.net that uses this feature and will let you see it in action I've tried several things briefly to try and implement some transluceny. It is pretty easy to make a translucent menu or dialog as long as it is WITHIN a frame window or something. You can just make owner draw controls that get the parentdc and alphablend the control DC with the parents. This works really well if you have a stable bitmap background. However, this become very hard to do when you have other windows moving around behind a translucent control or you try to do this on the windows desktop. Win2K provides a LayeredWindow to help with this. Does anyone have access to a W2K dev kit that contains this implementation? I check my VC 6 for this but it does not seem to be included. I'd like to see how they did this. I also considered it might be possible to control how windows draws the window, after all - doing this can't befar off from what programs like eFX and WindowBlinds have been doing to change the frame bars on existing windows already. - Eric Any suggestions? I plan on putting all this info together with some other controls I've made and putting it up on the web with source. MFc is nice, but its really easy to think of semi-simple things that are very diffculut to do - like change an image on a static control (w/o hiding an existing one and displaying a new control) Anyways, I'm getting off on a tangent. Please let me know you thoughts or tips. - Eric crahen@buffalo.edu DrCrahen@mad.scientist.

================== The original message was: I have a RichEditCtrl that "initially" does not diplay text that is pasted into it (using my_RichEditCtrl->Paste() or by Shift-Insert,Ctrl- V). The text "is" displayed if you then obscure the window and cause a redraw. What do I have to do to get the text to be made visible after the paste? Is it something to do with the configuration of the RE Ctrl, e.g in the Create call, or something I must do after the paste?. Thank-you Steve Dear Steve, Offhand, it sounds like you need to invalidate the area of the control after doing the paste, so that the new text will pop into view right away. I'm not an RE expert, but there should be a way to do an OnUpdate() or OnDraw() call for the control, which is after all a window. I hope this helps, Wes Rogers

================== The original message was: I have a RichEditCtrl that "initially" does not diplay text that is pasted into it (using my_RichEditCtrl->Paste() or by Shift-Insert,Ctrl- V). The text "is" displayed if you then obscure the window and cause a redraw. What do I have to do to get the text to be made visible after the paste? Is it something to do with the configuration of the RE Ctrl, e.g in the Create call, or something I must do after the paste?. Thank-you Steve Dear Steve, Offhand, it sounds like you need to invalidate the area of the control after doing the paste, so that the new text will pop into view right away. I'm not an RE expert, but there should be a way to do an OnUpdate() or OnDraw() call for the control, which is after all a window. I hope this helps, Wes Rogers

Another great editor is called Advanced Hex Editor (A.X.E) and is available here ================== The original message was: There's a great hex editor (MFC source included) here It's not an ActiveX control, but the author is somewhat interested in turning it into one. It's completely freeware. ================== The original message was: There's one important common control missing in Windows: e Hex editor to edit binary values (files or strings). I need one for a freeware application i'm developing. If anyone has something useful, please let me know. If not, i'll have to develop it myself. Good examples of how it could look are the editor for hex files in visual studio and the editor for hex values in regedit.

Another great editor is called Advanced Hex Editor (A.X.E) and is available here ================== The original message was: There's a great hex editor (MFC source included) here It's not an ActiveX control, but the author is somewhat interested in turning it into one. It's completely freeware. ================== The original message was: There's one important common control missing in Windows: e Hex editor to edit binary values (files or strings). I need one for a freeware application i'm developing. If anyone has something useful, please let me know. If not, i'll have to develop it myself. Good examples of how it could look are the editor for hex files in visual studio and the editor for hex values in regedit.