Use the pre and code items on the Formatting bar below the message compositin area. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and Surfulater www.surfulater.com "Save what you Surf"

It is a good thing that you are questioning what people tell you. Just to clarify. If you write something like that in the .cpp file it is as a reminder that the parameter is defaulted to NULL CCodeProject_Dialog2Dlg::CCodeProject_Dialog2Dlg(CWnd* pParent /*=NULL*/) If you look in the .h file you will see the constructor defined something like CCodeProject_Dialog2Dlg(CWnd* pParent = NULL) Note if you have more than one parameter, all parameters after the first one that you default must have default values. i.e These are OK Function(int *A = NULL, int *B = NULL, int *C = NULL) Function(int *A, int *B = NULL, int *C = NULL) Function(int *A, int *B, int *C = NULL) These are not Function(int *A = NULL, int *B, int *C = NULL) Function(int *A = NULL, int *B, int *C) Function(int *A, int *B = NULL, int *C) 7stud wrote: Thanks for your help. Your welcome Ant. I'm hard, yet soft. I'm coloured, yet clear. I'm fruity and sweet. I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Williams (Little Britain)

I spent several minutes reading your sig and wondering what the heck you were trying to tell me before I noticed the line with the method. Thanks for taking the time to help a beginner.

Michael is really a good guy! a man with a lot of knowledge but also be willing to help beginners! This is really a good place here! learn a lot! not only knowledge, also friendship... ^.^ Nice to see you! Have every good day! :) You will when you believe!

Hi, Thanks for the response. First, I'm confused about how allocating memory for a CArray works, and second I have no idea what I'm supposed to do to store objects with a dynamically allocated data member in a CArray. 1)My book says the default version of ConstructElements() allocates memory for the number of elements you want to store in the array, but it does not call a constructor for your objects. I assume that it must allocate memory using sizeof() then. Now, how come a regular object can be stored in the CArray but you have to do something extra for an object with a dynamically allocated data member? 2) How do you implement ConstructElements() for the simple object with a dynamiclly allocated data member that I listed in my first post?

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

You're welcome. Hosam Aly Mahmoud

Hello, Since you're a beginner whos learing, not everything gets pointed out in detail! I'm almost sure that when you read and learn more that the document will be used inside the OnDraw() and other functions! (I'm missing 1 line in the code! the 2nd line should be: ASSERT_VALID(pDoc); ) Good luck... A student knows little about a lot. A professor knows a lot about little. I know everything about nothing.

Yes, it took me awhile, but I thought of that too, and I commented out a line with an include statement I found, but the External Dependencies folder wouldn't go away. After reading your post, I decided to take another look. I had some other errors, from being in the middle of defining another function, and when I commented that function out, I didn't get anymore errors, and the External Dependencies folder disappeared. Thanks.

Christian Graus wrote: If so, could you click on Tools/Macro and tell me if OneTimeInclude is in the list of macros? It's empty, as I would expect. I'd expect this to include macros as in UI sequences I recorded, not macros as in #define BLAH blah After several days of messing around with this macro deal, I finally figured it out. If you're interested, with no files open in VC++6 click on Tools\Macro, then click on Options/Loaded Files, and the "Add ins and Macro files" tab should be selected(if not select it). There is a macro called Sample which you should enable by clicking on the check box. Then click on Close. From then on when the Macro dialog box appears after you click on Tools\Macros, you can select Sample as the "Macro file:", and from the list you can choose OneTimeInclude. When you click on Run, the macro will add your preprocessor directives for you. There are also other sample macros that are probably useful. Thanks for your help.