binding an application to an application

[swarup]

hi guys anyone has any idea or know how to, i hv a dialog based application, in tht suppose i want to bind notepad, bind mean, notepad will be inside the application and should behave as a child to my dialog, ie, u see a button or editbox they are bind to dialog n they act as a child to the app n they move with the app, same way in my app notepad has to do, move with the dialog.if i click some where out of ma app n then again click on ma app notepad should be in its place. any idea, thanks

[Arman S]

There is a technology for that - OLE. To do what you want, first the client side (e.g. notepad) should support OLE activization/embedding. Second, your app should support the facilities of OLE controllers. As far as i know, Notepad is not an OLE client, so it cannot 'bound' (as you call) to other applications. For more details, search for 'OLE Visual Editing' in the web.

-- ===== Arman