event handles are posthumous, they don't require relevant memory pointers on data struct.

Well, you're right. It was from exasperation with not being able to make it work, and the cause was a stupid mistake (mine to be sure). I got it a few minutes ago. Thank you and Sorry. alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

I know that and I haven't been able to find this code either. 3 is supposed to be a success code (bit 0 == 0), but apparently it is not. I am using SUCCEEDED, but the program kept failing further down the line, so I ran it thru the debugger and this is the HRESULT CoInitialize() returns. alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

I set the display to large fonts and it still says 96 dpi. >it *should* come back with the same mm size that was reported with normal fonts It does, but the reported size is wrong. alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

Anybody?? I'm really stuck with this one. Thanks alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

Sorry about the 'understandability'. Maybe it's my English. alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

i know. it's just i would like to keep them synchronized - it's handyer. any idea how to fix it? alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

Thank you for answering, but no. It was either MFC or WIN32 (before C#, .net etc) What I do remember, the demo drew a polyline (orthogonal segments only) and allowed the user to move those points while keeping the orthogonality. alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

Thank you, I will try that. alex 'Architecture is music frozen in space.'

My VS editor just opens the document pointed to by the link in text mode. If I open a HTML file in the VS editor, I just see the code and I have no other view of it. What I meant is to be able to insert links to documents in the 'text' file and to be able to open the document in its native mode (e.g. a link to a .html file will launch IE, a link to a .doc file will launch Word etc.) alex