There is a forum devoted exclusively to wxWidgets that is very good at helping wxForum[^] Judy

You use the registry to store application related information in it (application settings, usually). An INI file should be OK-ish, but then you would be better of using a database if you expect the data to grow over the time. It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

Well, the break statement hides the logic flaw, giving actually the correct result. Anyway, if you move the inizialization cmpflag=0; outside the while loop and don't use the break statement, your code will still work fine, but is somewhat inefficient. YOu should note that you're searching for a matching entry and if you find it, no matter how many different entries there are, cmpflag should remain 1. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

Hi, yes, I noticed that in the discussion, but I am first trying to understand where the WriteProfileString is actually writing things. The MSDN text is saying this OR that, but not much about what is steering where things go. As I understand it, you should call CWinApp::SetRegistryKey if you want to have things in the registry "Causes application settings to be stored in the registry instead of INI files". I get further confused when the application is not working either way in Vista, no registry and no INI file.

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anna mathew wrote: Yes... i can... Wow, like Obama. :rolleyes: anna mathew wrote: Ive done MFC database programming too.... Then shouldn't be difficult for you to have a look at the (console) article and adapt the code to the MFC application. Good luck. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

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anna mathew wrote: XML is a good choice...but little complicated with MFC... You may use MSXML or other libraries, there are lot of them around. anna mathew wrote: Heard INI files is a good choice... Serialization is far better. Anyway, if you want to use INI files, then you have use the functions (GetPrivateProfileInt,...) listed at the bottom of this page [^]. Check out also this article [^]. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

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You are welcome. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

Which one is your question? You asked or implied about 10. If you're really new to C++, then you really need to get some more simple programming under your belt before trying to do all of that. Break it into individual steps, and solve those steps. > im trying to create a simple program that verifies username and password Well, you'll want to make a modal dialog (CDialog::DoModal) with a couple of edit boxes - one of which can have the ES_PASSWORD style. Then when the user presses OK, validate their entry somehow. If your database has a user name / login system, let the database do the validation. And so on. Iain. ps, Please also use capitals and punctuation - it makes your message a LOT easier to read, and we're not a mobile phone.

anna mathew wrote: on authentication i must get connected to access database...how do i do it? One such way is via ODBC. Have you created a DSN? If so, just derive a class from CRecordset. You can also have a DSN-less connection. "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