Good point. Events work the same way: Bad: if(WorkCompleted != null) { WorkCompleted(this, EventArgs.Empty); } Good: EventHandler handler = WorkCompleted; if(handler != null) { handler(this, EventArgs.Empty); }

Thanks for the reference! Among other snippets, I had been looking at this[^] excellent article, by Jon Skeet. Because of the way he does the code snippets, though, I got confused about locking on non-static objects (almost all his samples have static locking objects, though he does make reference to static vs. non-static in one place in the article). His Miscellanous Utility library[^] is also extremely useful (he provides a class that gives you the ability to have locks with timeouts). Thanks again. Sincerely, Alexander Wiseman

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote: I think he could learn a thing or two from the late Prof. Richard Feynman. Sure, but none of them being chess playing. ;) I see dumb people

Taka Muraoka wrote: Have you used it? I am in the process of looking at it as well as some of the alternatives - but what gets me is that some are so expensive. eg a single clearcase licence costs more than my 2 year MSDN Universal subsription Technically speaking the dictionary would define Visual Basic users as programmers. But here again, a very generalized, liberal definition is being employed and it's wrong - just plain wrong - Tom Archer 5/12/02

Alexander Wiseman wrote: "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." I like it! Do VBians understand it? Todd Smith

Windows are painted back to front. So the view redraws, then all the controls draw on top of it. Try setting the WS_CLIPCHILDREN style on the view window. [edit] i'd originally put WSCLIPSIBLINGS instead... ugh... need coffee... :-O --- Shog9 If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything...

Alexander Wiseman wrote: Does AOG's Babylon 5 Wars game have different "armies" like in Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy? Yes. Basically the game follows the canon established by the series with regards to fleet composition. The four main races and the several minor races each have their own strengths & weaknesses and unique "flavour". For example EarthForce ships are slow and as agile as a flying brick but armored like a kevlar turtle and have very concentrated firepower (as in don't ever fly in front of them), the Minbari on the other hand have fast , sleek, agile ships with lots of long range weapons which are spread all around the ship , hence lacking Earth's ability of delivering whitering volleys. The point system keeps things further in balance (similar to Warhammer) by allowing the Earth to field two or three ships for each Minbari vessel. For fans of specific races the game provides fleets for almost every race from Drazi Warbirds to Vree Battlesaucers. It even allows you to play the Ancient Races such as the Shadows & the Vorlons. The game does lack special characters such as they appear in Warhammer. Even a grand admiral is basically a small modifier (purchased during fleet construction) with only a limited effect compared to say a Ulrik The Slayer from the Space Wolf Chapter.

Hello! Just in case anyone was wondering, I found the solution to the problem. Stepping through the code didn't work on my machine for some reason, but the actual problem was a line fo code in PreSubclassWindow. Just goes to show how you should really know your window creation process; I din't remember when it was called and so when I manually stepped through the code I found the error in that function. Thanks for your time! Sincerely, Alexander Wiseman Est melior esse quam videri It is better to be than to seem

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I choose 7) Many at home,0 at work :-D .No body hire me without any certification. :(( Mazy "So,so you think you can tell, Heaven from Hell, Blue skies from pain,... How I wish,how I wish you were here." Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd-1975

Bill, Thanks for your response. I know 0xfffffff is not NULL, but I'm wondering why the stupid variable wasn't initialized to NULL to satisfy the ASSERTION condition. I believe that you are correct in saying that one of the XP dlls got changed by the service pack, but I fail to see why Microsoft did not say anything about it in their report of the fixes. Anyway, if someone else comes up with this problem I'll look into again, I uninstalled then reinstalled Microsoft Visual C++ Standard Edition to start from square one, didn't take too long and everything is back to normal now, so I'm in business. But I definitely want to know what the heck happened... Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Alexander Wiseman Est melior esse quam videri It is better to be than to seem