In each case where I'm expecting a dialog to open is when I'm involking the CFileDialog class. That is, when saving I call this class with the proper constructor to open a save dialog box and similiarly when I call open. thanks! "Why are we hiding from the police, Daddy?" "We use VI, son. They use Emacs."

Use CListBox::SetTopIndex. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com ** Putt knot yore thrust inn spel chequers. **

You should not pass WM_PAINT messages to windows. Windows will ignore them anyway. Windows only generates paint messages itself if the message queue for that thread is empty. Even then the target window needs to have an invalid area on it window rect for a paint message to be generated. When you were looking to invalidate the rect of the window that is more along the lines of what you need to do. If you want to force a repaint of the window use the RedrawWindow function. Here is an example. m_SpellCastingBar.RedrawWindow(NULL, NULL, RDW_INVALIDATE | RDW_NOERASE | RDW_UPDATENOW); The first two nulls indicate that you want the entire window to be updated. The flags say that you are invalidating the update region of your window because you can validate the window as well and prevent WM_PAINT messages from being called. RDW_NOERASE says do not generate a WM_ERASEBKGND message, and the RDW_UPDATENOW flag says expedite this request, and send the WM_PAINT message before the function call ends. Coincidentally, these two function calls will do the equivalent of the RedrawWindow function above. m_SpellCastingBar.InvalidateRect(NULL); m_SpellCastingBar.UpdateWindow(); Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!

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Check KB article Q236991. Basically, if you're linked to MFC DLL, this should be enough to enable DAO 3.6: AfxGetModuleState()->m_dwVersion = 0x0601; AfxDaoInit(); There's C++ Q&A column in Jan'2000 issue of MSJ that also describes this. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

Start a new app from AppWizard, and check "Pinting", this enable print and print preview to your CView. Then draw your bitmap on the OnDraw method of your view. That's all. // PrintTestView.cpp BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CPrintTestView, CView) //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CPrintTestView) // NOTE - the ClassWizard will add and remove mapping macros here. // DO NOT EDIT what you see in these blocks of generated code! //}}AFX_MSG_MAP // Standard printing commands ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_PRINT, CView::OnFilePrint) ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_PRINT_DIRECT, CView::OnFilePrint) ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_PRINT_PREVIEW, CView::OnFilePrintPreview) END_MESSAGE_MAP() void CPrintTestView::OnDraw(CDC* pDC) { CPrintTestDoc* pDoc = GetDocument(); ASSERT_VALID(pDoc); CBitmap bmp; if (bmp.LoadBitmap(IDB_BITMAP1)) { // Get the size of the bitmap BITMAP bmpInfo; bmp.GetBitmap(&bmpInfo); // Create an in-memory DC compatible with the // display DC we're using to paint CDC dcMemory; dcMemory.CreateCompatibleDC(pDC); // Select the bitmap into the in-memory DC CBitmap* pOldBitmap = dcMemory.SelectObject(&bmp); // Find a centerpoint for the bitmap in the client area CRect rect; GetClientRect(&rect); int nX = rect.left + (rect.Width() - bmpInfo.bmWidth) / 2; int nY = rect.top + (rect.Height() - bmpInfo.bmHeight) / 2; // Copy the bits from the in-memory DC into the on- // screen DC to actually do the painting. Use the centerpoint // we computed for the target offset. pDC->BitBlt(nX, nY, bmpInfo.bmWidth, bmpInfo.bmHeight, &dcMemory, 0, 0, SRCCOPY); dcMemory.SelectObject(pOldBitmap); } } ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // CPrintTestView printing BOOL CPrintTestView::OnPreparePrinting(CPrintInfo* pInfo) { // default preparation return DoPreparePrinting(pInfo); }

I found my older code on this where I write GetParentFrame()->BringWindowToTop(); I knew I wrote this sometime. =) Thanks for the help though! Chris "Why are we hiding from the police, Daddy?" "We use VI, son. They use Emacs."

Chris I am not a ListCtrl expert but have been playing with them a bit lately, hope this information is helpful. 1. Get the width of the last column subtract the width of the scrollbar and set column width to result. int nWidth = m_ListCtrl.GetColumnWidth(nLastCol); nWidth -= SomeFunctionToGetWidthOfScrollBar(); //Get real function yourself m_cCustomerList.SetColumnWidth((nLastCol), nWidth); You would need to use this code when you have added a row that goes beyond the visible portion of the ListCtrl. 2. As far as I know all ListCtrls by default have the last column (all columns) resizeable. Grab the right side of right most header and drag out beyond edge of ListCtrl. Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone

Thanks for tip! Got it functioning the way I would like. Hmmm.. that seemed all to easy. I'll have to think of a harder one next time. ;P "Why are we hiding from the police, Daddy?" "We use VI, son. They use Emacs."

thanks for the help. It turns out it was linked to someone using the following line earlier in the program var Array = arrayTemp; oh well... the frustration of having to maintain someone elses code. ;-) "Why are we hiding from the police, Daddy?" "We use VI, son. They use Emacs."

Nevermind! Found the solution I believe. for those with curiousity... Is Null for empty fields Is Not Null for not empty fields So for example SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COLUMN1 LIKE 'DATA1' AND COLUMN2 Is Null This will return all records where column1 is DATA1 and column2 is blank. "Why are we hiding from the police, Daddy?" "We use VI, son. They use Emacs."

Yes, especially if you plan to create context help someday :) This also applies to duplicated values mapped to different IDC_xxx inside single DLL or EXE. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com