This was a dumb qstn!!! :-O The damn reference to system.xml was not set. My aplgz!

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Thanks a lot!!! :-D

Thanks for your time! I know the questions are a bit $#@^ed up, but I'm just a newb! I sorted the whole mess out, I got the class to do what I want and it is now like 20 times smaller :laugh:. Once again thanks for your help! :)

Forget it! I think I was sleepwalking ystrday or somthn. Figured the whole thing out. By the way classes are so big due to enums, got lots of them!!!

Sorry, I have not been able to find such! If you really want the enum items in order you could write enum { blah = 0 }; enum { bl = 1 }; enum { bla = 2 }; and they will appear in that order in the class view. Though this seems a bit overkill for me! Ant. I'm hard, yet soft. I'm coloured, yet clear. I'm fruity and sweet. I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Williams (Little Britain)

CreepingFeature wrote: Is there a way to tell VC++ to report 100 as say wrong argument for myFuntion(int); instead of just reporting error number No, not a far as I know of. These so called return code is some sort of the lowest common demnominator of error reporting. They are designed to work on every OS. All you know is that '0' means 'No Error'. Other codes have to be documented (on Unix, man pages do this, but windows is deficient in this way, too) to be used in eg. batch scripts. "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." -- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

I see that. What's your point? "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

No. #define causes simple text subsititution before actual compilation. ifstream.open("myFile.txt") isn't valid C++ syntax.

As arrays of data are placed sequentically in memory (at least on unmanaged/non .Net programs), then you can use ZeroMemory to set the entire array area to zero. Alternatively, you can use ZeroMemory in conjuction with array indexes to clear certain sections. A few examples: // Create an array int nArray[20]; // Clear the first three "slots" ZeroMemory( &nArray[0], sizeof(int) * 3 ); // Clear slots 10-15 ZeroMemory( &nArray[10], sizeof(int) * 5); // Clear the last slot ZeroMemory( &nArray[19], sizeof(int) ); Hope these will help you. -Antti Keskinen ---------------------------------------------- The definition of impossible is strictly dependant on what we think is possible.

Also, not mentioned before, is that static arrays are always initialized with zero for each value. I wouldn't recommend making a variable static for that reason alone, but it is interesting to remember that for future reference. If you have an array that is in a global function and you don't want it to be reallocated on the stack every time the function is called, you could make an array static. The values are all zero the first time the function executes and after that, the values will stay in memory. The initialization only takes place once, even though the function call could be made many times.

Thanks!!! ;)

im assuming you have Visual C++, unfortunatly VC++ doesnt come with the old functions like gotoxy() or clrscrn() that Dev-C++ offers here is a ClearScreen() function i wrote along time ago (with SetXY() function) void SetXY(int X, int Y){ COORD dwCoord; dwCoord.X = X; dwCoord.Y = Y; SetConsoleCursorPosition(STDHANDLE,dwCoord); } void ClearScreen(){ COORD dwCoord; DWORD nLength; DWORD lpResult; CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO Info; GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(STDHANDLE, &Info); dwCoord.X = 0; dwCoord.Y = 0; nLength = Info.dwSize.X * Info.dwSize.Y; FillConsoleOutputCharacter(STDHANDLE, ' ', nLength, dwCoord, &lpResult); SetXY(0,0); } ohh i almost forgot #define STDHANDLE GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)