Could share direct link? I'm no a member of these groups?

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akirilov wrote: I'm going to use __super, thus It will not depend of the base class name. But it does tie you to Microsoft's compiler... Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Thank you, that was very helpful!!!

Thank you. I expected this, but because ANSI function were declared I hoped that they are implemented.

I agree. But if you insist, then you should just 'cast' it as a pointer when you Write - WriteFile(... (long*)Mem, // mem is an address ...

oh, I think I already did ... :(( I tried (global variables): CakRadioBox *prb = NULL; CakRadioBox & rb; well ... it doesn't work, it require initialization I changed it to: CakRadioBox *prb = NULL; CakRadioBox & rb = *prb; so far so good, but when in Init() I wrire: prb = new CakRadioBox(10, 134, 44, 24); rb = *prb I receive exception :rolleyes:

Personally I don't care if it going to be <...> or "...". However, I have to change some things in a project written by someone else and ... I can't compile it ... for now. I hoped that if I try to stay as close to the environment that the other guy had, I will compile it. The program was written in DevC++ 4.0 ... no project, just a make file (can't compile trough it). I receive: [Linker error] undefined reference to IBPP::CheckVersion(unsigned int) and so on for all functions inside. So, this is the main reason for my question ... and I hoped around it to learn more about static library.

Than you very much - it worked fine. Because I'm writing in C++ native, here is how to do it trough Win API: SetCursor((HCURSOR)IDC_WAIT); // shows wait ... SetCursor(0); //hide cursor

akirilov wrote: I don't know the difference of TCHAR* xx and TCHAR *XX xx is a different variable than XX. Whether you put the space before or after is irrelevant, as the compiler sees tokens rather than spaces. "Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown "The brick walls are there for a reason...to stop the people who don't want it badly enough." - Randy Pausch

IImage works fine. Good alternative for GDI+ for reading images (and for alphablending of course) Thank you very much!!! P.S. IImage draws a little bit slow ... I wonder is ALPHABLEND function s faster? Wwhat problems you had with it?

thank you very much Cédric, thank you!!! Actually it worked but in reverse - I had to turn Off /GS For all that have the same problem (basically all that have VS2005 SP1 and are making WM5.0 in native): - add /GS- to C/C++ command line or - C/C++ -> Code Generation -> Buffer Security Check: No