Yeah i only spotted the 'dont post in the lounge' thing *after* i pressed the submit button. :-) Sorry about all that! -az.:)

Right, i'd actually alread tried that method too... and it didn't work. I tried swapping the mapping from my custom class, to the view and still didn't work. The problem was... m_btn.Create("TEST", WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE, CRect(0,0, 200, 100), this, ID_MYBUTTON) as opposed to my m_btn.Create("TEST", WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE, CRect(0,0, 200, 100), AfxGetMainWnd(), ID_MYBUTTON) should have seen this. Thanks for the help everyone.:-D:-D:-D