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The problem still persists in some way. After I call DrawMenuBar(), it does refreshes the menu but now the code that checks and unchecks the menu item does not work at all. Also, the code that grays out some menu item does not work either, and it doesn't matter how many times I call DrawMenuBar(). I am not sure whether this behavior is specific to DrawMenuBar(), or is caused by the ModifyMenu command, but it sure screws up the app. Thank you.

Thanks Mike, you are as helpful as always. I ran through all of your articles about WTL, but couldn't figure this GetTopLevelParent() out. Thank again.

Hi, Most of your problem seems to come from the confusing WTL CString support. Try this: // stdafx.h // your global #define ... #include #include #define _WTL_NO_CSTRING #include extern CAppModule _Module; #include // your other 'namespace ATL{' #include ... // your 'namespace WTL{' #include ... // your other aplication #include ... cheers, AR

I truly believe that with Vista we'll encounter a whole new set of problems with even the most common controls. Sarajevo, Bosnia

Oh, sorry for that, I stand corrected.

Okay, I found it: I need to handle the message OnCtlColorStatic: ::SetBkMode((HDC)wParam, TRANSPARENT); return (LRESULT) GetStockObject (HOLLOW_BRUSH); and my static controls are all transparent. But I can still not make group box captions to be trtansparent. Thanks.

damir_tk wrote: Haha...no, I am not going to deal with that one :) Same problem with a groupbox. You can make it owner drawn and draw it yourself (it's a button). If only WM_EX_TRANSPARENT style was implemented for all controls...

Thank a lot. Point taken. :)

Thanks for your reply. The ATL project has some drawing and I used MFC, even if it bloats the code, as I am so used to MFC things in doing this. The reason for building it inside the ATL is that I can possibly use it later on under the .Net, avoiding all the problems and sluggishness of the .Net GDI+. Anyways, I know I have to use UNICODE support, but it just does not show it, for instance, if I set a name of the static control to some UNICODE name in Bosnian, then it would be properly displayed in the code editor (using Courier New CE), but when I compile it and test the control it just shows | instead of the characters, or something else. The wWinMainCRTStartup is the entry point for CRT, but the build fails if I define it, showing something like: "_wWinMainCRTStartup" is not __stdcall with 12 bytes of arguments; image may not run correctly" The dll crashes in run-time if I compile it that way. So the question is: what else I have to do to enable UNICODE character set in it. Thanks.

Xenocode is good!

What you need to do is to define a way to compare two of the values. If you just do that, you can then use any sorting algorithm. You can even make a class that implements ICompareable and use the SortedList class to sort them. What information does the names contain? How do you separate the different parts of information? Why is, for an example, "ServerWebSomething1" more distinctive than "ServerWeb3"? --- b { font-weight: normal; }

Yes, you are right. Thanks for your help.