Dave, I was adding some functionality to an MFC app that has been running for 10 years. I started getting the "Failed to create empty document" message. I stepped into the constructor of my document class and its base class and all the other objects that were being created. The constructor of one of my objects was getting a pen style out of a configuration file that contained a bogus value. The class was attempting to create a pen with "new CPen(..." using the bogus pen style value. The constructor of CPen threw an exception eventually causing the document class to exception out resulting in the infamous "Failed to create empty document" message. Perhaps your customers in Sweden and Australia have some bogus data in either their data files or some configuration file.

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It was a real pain trying to scale Bob down to fit a button 15 pixels tall. Glad you liked it. I horked all the buttons from the Steal These Buttons page, except for the "Born To Code" and "CodeProject" buttons which I just did myself. If anyone wants to tweak the button, have at it. I'm not an artist, I don't even play one on TV. Dave Goodman dgoodman@infoway.com www.dkgoodman.com "Actio sequitur esse."

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Is this with ID3DXFont or CD3DFont (or something based on it)? I've seen this problem with ID3DXFont; it seems that when it draws the text using certain fonts, the kerning bumps the W just out of the texture. Try inserting a space before the W maybe? I'm using a custom derivative of CD3DFont that decouples the font texture from the renderer, and lets me fiddle with the U,V coords for the characters (and "bake in" stuff like drop shadows). It's not as convenient as ID3DXFont and doesn't support Unicode, but it's a lot more flexible for playing with :) - Mike

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