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Check out http://bo2k.sourceforge.net/, it's an open source implementation of something like what you want to do.

Short answer is no. Long answer is look for a "Internet Call Waiting" Modem-on-Hold™ (MOH)service from your telephone company. V.92 provides this sort of functionality http://www.v92.com/

No, because the busy signal that the caller hears comes from the phone company, not your house. In other words, when they are calling you, the signal does not even reach your house. It is detected much further upstream that your phone is off the hook and thus tells the caller so with a busy signal.

You're new to programming and you want to jump into the deep end of the pool and undertake such an ambitious project. Amazing. Some of my first programming projects, small as they were, allowed me to build a solid foundation first, and then add to it a bit more each time. It's been a while but some of them I remember are: -- Fahrenheit to celcius convertor -- Monte Carlo anaylsis -- Degrees to radians convertor -- Calculate wind chill and heat indices -- Quadratic equations -- Complex numbers (used Ada and its flavor of classes for this) -- Department store markup (wholesale * markup = sale price) -- Number-guessing game -- Split a file into two pieces, and then merge it back together -- Various stdin/stdout type programs (e.g., pipe the output of a number file through a program to compute the average) -- Writing to and reading from a data file -- Various sorting and searching algorithms -- RPN calculator (prerequisite of stacks, lists, and queues) There are dozens more but I can't recall them right now. I think you get my point, however.

for example : // m_Font is a class member of a dialog. m_Font.CreateFont( 15, 0, 0, 0, FW_BOLD, FALSE, FALSE, 0, DEFAULT_CHARSET, OUT_CHARACTER_PRECIS, CLIP_CHARACTER_PRECIS, DEFAULT_QUALITY, DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE, _T("Arial") ); ... // somewhere in the paint. HFONT hfontOld; hfontOld = (HFONT)SelectObject(dc.m_hDC, m_Font); // do something... with the DC ( draw the text. ::SelectObject(dc.m_hDC, hfontOld); ... Also, you can maybe search and enumerate the font name just in case "Arial" does not exists. Max.

Here's an example taken from MSDN: BOOL CSampleView::OnEraseBkgnd(CDC* pDC) { // Set brush to desired background color. CBrush backBrush(RGB(255, 128, 128)); // Save old brush. CBrush* pOldBrush = pDC->SelectObject(&backBrush); CRect rect; pDC->GetClipBox(&rect); // Erase the area needed. pDC->PatBlt(rect.left, rect.top, rect.Width(), rect.Height(), PATCOPY); pDC->SelectObject(pOldBrush); return TRUE; } If that doesn't work - which kind of view do you use?

You should post this question to the bcg forums on www.bcgsoft.com Best regards, Alexandru Savescu

Take a look at CreateWindow for a list of possible class names.... .... or play with Spy++. Spy++ really is great. Anyone want to form the Spy++ appreciation society with me? Sorry to dissapoint you all with my lack of a witty or poignant signature.

Surely the answer to this is to convert your code to Unicode !! This support Multi-Languages, All you need to do then is to use different resource for each Language.

A look in afxpriv.h shows the define. I guess one of the service packs must have added it for MFC use. Michael :-)

Its a bug in Visual Studo. Replace with WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL. Have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaultframe.asp?page=/msj/0499/multilangunicode/multilangunicode.htm&nav=/msj/0499/newnav.htm Michael :-)

Chief ....the problem has been solved.....thanks for your help. "VC is an incubus and to tame this monster experience is a mandatory Field."