Dean `Karnatos` Michaud wrote: I need to be able to detect CD Burning devices... Have you looked at the Win32_CDROMDrive and Win32_PhysicalMedia WMI classes? "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

CFileFind might be converting the date and times to c style dates and times. In your case, I doubt it matters much, but I have seen applications where the conversions where taking up over 20% of the process time. You might try using the WIN32 functions directly. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

try: http://www.codeproject.com/gdi/coolrgn.asp[^] It allows you to create a region to use with SetWindowRgn (as Michael Dunn suggestion below) from a bitmap file. I use something similar for my funky non-rectangle app. That's why I ramble so much. If you're short and quotable, there's a much greater danger of ending up in a sig. [Christopher Duncan on how to prevent yourself from ending up in a sig]

Oh, good. It must be at least two weeks since this was posted.... :P Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002

Check out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/Shell/programmersguide/shell_adv/bands.asp[^] and a good sample that I've used can be found on MSDN by searching for 'comtoys'.... Good luck! Chris _"No one goes to hell because of their sin, but because of rejecting God's method of salvation: His Son's life for yours..." "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams_

Thanks for the link. It's a nice editor. Regards, Alvaro Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein

See: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/147/[^] Shog9 ------ Crazy lady with the shiny shoes, where are you? Kick your feet and calm the space that makes you hollow Live, Insomnia And The Hole In The Universe

See MSDN article Q109175. It has two points that may help you: 1) Using Window class to search for window 2) Activating the window in other application.

I've seen that error -- You get that error if the file was not opened successfully or some permissions are incorrect.

SetForegroundWindow. with some caveats. Here's a great article : http://www.etree.com/tech/Articles/attachthreadinput.pdf And here's some code to do it: DWORD MyThreadId=GetCurrentThreadId(); DWORD ForeThreadId=::GetWindowThreadProcessId(::GetForegroundWindow(),0); HWND hForegroundMe=0; // Get handle to the window you want to place in the foreground. // For instance use EnumThreadWindows if you know the ThreadId // (perhaps you have it saved in a shared memory?) // or use EnumWindows if you know the window text of the window // you are looking for... if (GetWindowLong(hForegroundMe,GWL_STYLE)&WS_MINIMIZE) ::ShowWindow(hForegroundMe,SW_RESTORE),::UpdateWindow(hForegroundMe); if (ForeThreadId!=MyThreadId) AttachThreadInput(ForeThreadId,MyThreadId,TRUE); ::SetForegroundWindow(hForegroundMe); if (ForeThreadId!=MyThreadId) AttachThreadInput(ForeThreadId,MyThreadId,FALSE);

:-D Don't use any.. don't write enough s/w at the moment to worry about bug-tracking "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks] "It's The Soapbox; topics are optional" Shog 9

Man, beautiful! I'm glad I asked, I was taking a different approach and it was causing undeserved headache! Thanks again Joaquín : Dean 'Karnatos' Michaud

Beautiful - thank you for the backup workaround for my problem! It greys out the 'X' just fine, allowing the '?' to be displayed. Hopefully there's a way to hide the 'X' altogether though, I'd much prefer that. : Dean 'Karnatos' Michaud

It occurs to me, now that i look at it, that the version i'm using has been hacked to allow opaque sizing; if this is something you'd want, mail me & i'll send you a copy. --------_** I'm not sick, but i'm not well And i'm so hot, 'cause i'm in hell... **_ Harvey Danger, Flagpole Sitta

Yeah, but I haven't been to bed since yesterday afternoon. Working about 16 hours a day on my new book! Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C# Please note that the opinions expressed in this correspondence do not necessarily reflect the views of the author.

Oops. Newbie Exception. The usual flamers are warming up their weapons. This may be exceptionally fun to watch! Welcome, Dean, and prepare to be singed:laugh:

Your welcome :-D "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton Jr.