When I first heard back in 1998 that microsoft were going to produce a combined VB-style IDE (i.e., an evolution of Visual Interdev - which originally came from the VB IDE code base) for all the languages I expected that subsuming the functionality of the excellent VC++ Developer Studio IDE would be problematic. Sure enough, most complaints about the IDE have come from VC++ guys. For example see the Microsoft .NET newsgroups. Someone from the MS VC++ compiler team said that the IDE is likely to be significantly improved in the next version to address VC++ issues. I've posted an article on the site showing how to help out a bit on tool window management using a combination of command aliases and macros. It's not perfect but it cuts down a bit on the mouse. You might like to give it a try. http://www.codeproject.com/macro/vstogglewindow.asp I guess that between now and the next release the Add-In gurus (I'm not one of them!) will churn out some helpful IDE utilities. Joshua Jensen's Workspace Whizz for VS.NET is in Beta, for example. Kevin

-Create your toolbar. -After that, you edit your resource by a editor, add any SEPARATOR neccesary in resource. -In OnCreate(), use method SetButtonInfo(..) of the toolbar to change the width of edit box (or combobox...) -Use Create(...) of edit box (or combo...) to create it onto the toolbar. Hung Son A Vietnamese student i-g.hypermart.net dlhson2001@yahoo.com

On Win2000 you can use GetLastInputInfo. On other systems you'll need to create a global keyboard/mouse hooks. Have a look at Feb'2000 issue of Microsoft Systems Journal, C++ Q&A column. It should be in the 'Periodicals' section of your VC++ help, if it's not there, go to msdn.microsoft.com, then MSDN Magazine. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com