Thanks. That was a very useful add-in.

Articles at CP (Bitmaps & Palettes): CxImage, CDibData, "Saving a Drawing to a Bitmap File". There are probably others. INTP Every thing is relative...

To dismiss the modeless dialog box, simply call: pOtherBox->DestroyWindow(); And also implement: void COtherBox::PostNcDestroy() { delete this; } "Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it." - Native American Proverb

The mouse message is going to the window that the cursor is over, since that's the window being acted on. So when you click the button, the button gets the message, not the button's parent. You'll need to subclass the button and handle WM_LBUTTONDOWN in your subclass. --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ There is a saying in statistics that a million monkeys pounding on typewriters would eventually create a work of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.

is that David Crow leaning sidewise ? :( .. you are like a BOSS so try Bolding it or just leave it like David Crow. it luks great. He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition. -Novjot Sidhu --[v]--

Not necessarily a problem, it could use up memory a lot depending upon what you do in the enumeration, since each CWnd created this way is a temporary added to a map. I just try to avoid doing anything MFC related in a callback like that. I am not sure what Joseph did. Threre might be a separate problem in your code. BTW: I tried to e-mail you a sample, but your GMail address might be bad.

caykahve wrote: and the message box says: C:\Program Files I need to add something at the end of this string and then i try to use it in another function which needs the paths in double back slashes like: "C:\\Program Files" Then I try to do a conversion in PFPath in order to double the backslashes to change from "C:\Program Files" to "C:\Program Files" You don't actually need any conversion. The double back slash is needed only when you are writing a string literal in your code. That's because the back slash is a escape character (used in combinations like \t, \r and \n, to represent a tab, carrier return, and line feed characters), when what you want is an actual back slash character, you need to type it twice. However, the double back slash pair represents one (single) back slash character in memory. -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

You are still have a bit confused. There is no need to change PFPath, and the string literal being appended to it is fine (because it contains the necessary double backslashes). You don't need to insert anything additional. The variable WholePath contains what it needs to. caykahve wrote: If I do not use double slash, I get the error: "The program cannot find the file specified" Rightly so. But the code snippet you've shown does have a double backslash so I don't see the problem. caykahve wrote: Is there some other way to obtain "C:\\Program Files"? Why, when you are already doing it correctly? If you tried to access a file using code like: "c:\program files\some_folder\mydata\file.dat" not only would the compiler complain about illegal escape characters (e.g., \p and \s and \m make no sense, but \f does), it would have interpreted that as "c:rogram filesome_folderydata\file.dat" hence the file not being found. "One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb

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Thanks a lot. I can get the program files folder path, and can run other processes using ShellExecuteEx now. I can get the process handle as HANDLE, but how can I get the CWnd * of the windows that I open? I want to use SetWindowPos() function, therefore i need it. Thanks, Caykahve

It's hard to believe that your function gets executed. Maybe you call func2 somewhere else? Try using the debugger and set a breakpoint in func2. Then see the callstack for the caller. Behind every great black man...             ... is the police. - Conspiracy brother Blog[^]

cedric moonen wrote: But everything related to window management cannot be used in console application, am I right ? Correct. cedric moonen wrote: And so, a big part of the MFC cannot be used neither. I guess that depends on your definition of "big part." Here is a map of the MFC library that I use. I would not say that a "big part" of the classes were windows-specific. Of the 129 classes shown, about 94 of them can be used in console and GUI applications. "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown

Thanks! How I exactly got the border: int HBorder = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXDLGFRAME); int VBorder = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYDLGFRAME); //Left border thickness is equal to right border int CaptionHeight = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYCAPTION); int UpperBorder = CaptionHeight + HBorder;

If you make a button on a form/dialog invisible, you might also want to disable it as well, because otherwise, the user might still tab to it or otherwise activate the window. ControlWindow.EnableWidnow(FALSE); ControlWindow.ShowWindow(SW_HIDE); ... ControlWindow.ShowWindow(SW_SHOW); ControlWindow.EnableWidnow(TRUE);

Thank you ThatsAlok, it works with MoveWindow(). :)

WM_NCHITTEST did the trick. :) thanks a lot! caykahve

The way to edit this is to use Group Policy. See this page[^] for details (Google's cache of a page on microsoft.com). I'd recommend asking the administrator to do this. If you're in an Active Directory network environment the administrator can do this by creating a Group Policy object with the setting; place all the computers you want the setting to affect in the same Organizational Unit in AD, and link the GPO to that container. If you want a global policy for your organisation, create the GPO in the domain root. If you must do it on a local system through code, you can use the IGroupPolicyObject interface to edit the local GPO. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

inject your code into the process that is showing the user screen and enable hooks from it gabby

You might have to "move" the dialog for a long time before it becomes visible.    Be sure to trace some information in your dialog class upon handling the Move messages so that you can get an idea of what is going on with your dialog.    Peace! -=- James Tip for inexperienced drivers: "Professional Driver on Closed Course" does not mean "your Dumb Ass on a Public Road"! Articles -- Products: Delete FXP Files & Check Favorites

I solved the problem and I'm very happy for that!! :-D ok.. forget the function mapped to UPDATE_COMMAND_UI - delete it! Somewhere outside do this to switch between enabled and disabled menu items - nothing else //enable-disable switch // Item3Enable is the bool value to decide if it will be enabled or disabled Item3Enable = !Item3Enable; UINT fGray = Item3Enable ? 0 : MF_GRAYED|MF_DISABLED; CMenu *hMenu; hMenu = GetMenu(); CMenu *sub; sub = hMenu->GetSubMenu(1); sub->EnableMenuItem(ID_SETTINGS_ITEM3, MF_BYCOMMAND|fGray);