My program gives me a problem in XP and XP alone. The main program runs fine, but when I open a form that then runs another thread and some other tasks if the user clicks on the dialog while the tasks are being processed the form won't close after the tasks are complete (as it should). The tasks are all completed correctly except the form won't close. I also get a "Not responding message" in the dialog top bar when the user is clicking on the form. :( I throught maybe i needed to run the DisableProcessWindowsGhosting() function at the beginning of my program, however my program does'nt not seem to recognize that function. I have inclued "winuser.h" as a header. Any thoughts on this, either how to get the DisableProcessWindowsGhosting() to work, or another possible solution. Note: I have also tried the PeekMessage function but this did not work. Cheers* Any help would be greatful :). Debs*

I am using C++ Builder Pro to create a database program. I have a DBCtrlGrid which views several records at one time. On this grid I have various text boxes with the data from the database records displayed. I would like to write a statement where if a paticular value is > 10 the text would change to red for that specific record textbox(123Txt). when I try to do this now it changes all the viewed records text in the textbox(123Txt) to red. Is it possible to change just one panels txt using this DBCtrlGrid?:confused: Any thoughts would be great. Debs

My 5M memory does seem like a small thing to fuss about except that its a graphing program that connects to a COMport and the operating system/computer often runs 12-20 of these programs at once (all open/not minimized) ... and ideally as many as we can visually fit on the screen so reducing the memory is quite important(as far as I can understand). As the more programs we add the slower and slower the computer functions. :doh: Just to clarifiy if I minimize & resize my program it is now running on less memory (1-3M) but is running less efficently? :^) Thanks for your suggestions and I will look into the article you suggested. Any more thoughts appreciated. Cheers*

hmm I'm not sure If I'm not getting it or if I did not explain myself well. I also tried to implement the example in the link you gave me and could not get it to work. Where am I suspose to place the LRESULT CALLBACK? I realize that my program should use less memory when it is minimized however when I reopen(restore) my program(from being minimized) it runs with less memory(than when first started) at the same size as when I first initiated the program. Ie: Start the program 5-6M Minimize the program 400-800K Restore program 1-2M! Is my program now functioning less efficiently or was it using more memory that it needed to being with. Any thoughts would be greatfull to help inlighten my understanding. Cheers*

I've got a memory question. My program runs at around 5-6M under the memory usage when first started. And remains around that as it runs, however if I minimize it and re-open it, it runs at around 1.5M under the memory usage. I've checked for basic memory leaks and can't seem to find anything. Any thoughts on how I can get it to run at 1.5 on first startup? Any suggestions on good memory articles. Anythoughts would be appreaciated. Cheers*

Cheers* Exactly what I needed. :-D

I would like to create a program that would start another program running (multiple times but I'll start with just once). I'm not sure the best way to go about this, any thoughts? I was thinken maybe initiating a bat file. however I am not sure about how to go about this either. I've tried the open(c:\\M2.bat,...) function but I seem to get an -1 in the handle. any thoughts would be great. I'm using C++ Builder. Cheers*

Excuss my ignorance but what is C++/CLI? How are you finding the transition?? Do you have a link to more info on C++/CLI?

When I set TImage Transparent property to true. The part of the image that becomes transparent is not a clean cut and looks very pixelly. I believe I have to use bmp image for this transparent property to work and even with a high quality bmp I can't seem to get it to be clean transparent cut. Any other thoughts? Deborah

I'm working in C++ Builder and I have a round LED image that I would like to use. However Builder does not seem to accept transparent sections of the graphic and so the image appears as though it has white corners. Any thoughts on how I could get this to display as an image with a transparent background? I tried loading the image through imagelist and then set the transparent property to the white section and this worked except that the graphic then did not look like the nice quality that it use to? Any thoughts would be greatfull. Debs*

Thanks for all the suggestions I managed to do do it by the following::-D TCheckBox *ChkBx[34]; ChkBx[0]=CheckBox1; //Declaring them all once into an array ChkBx[1]=CheckBox2; ... ChkBx[33]=CheckBox33; for(int i=0;i!=4;i++) { ChkBx[i]->Checked=true; } I also used this concept with Graph Line Series ie. TChartSeries *Ser[4]; ... Thanks Again Debs -- modified at 13:11 Friday 23rd September, 2005

Thanks for the suggestions I will try them out:-D Debs

The current program I am working on has a lot of user Checkboxs and currently when ever I change a property I end up coding something like this: CheckBox1->Enabled=true; CheckBox2->Enabled=true; ... CheckBox30->Enabled=true; this is obviously not a very efficient way of doing this... so I'm looking for a more efficient way... maybe something along the lines of for(int c=0;c!=31;c++) { CheckBox(c)->Enabled=true; } this code will obviously not work but any suggestions on how to make something like this work??? :~ Cheers* Debs

hmm ok thanks for some direction, I don't think I handle command line arguments from windows:~ ... I'll have to read up on this any suggestions? Debs

I have a program that creates graphs which you can save and load. I have successfully associated my icon to my program so that when I click on a graph file it opens the program :)( in registry ie. "c:\...\...\program.exe "%1"") however it does not load my graph:(. I use the open file dialog do I need to write specific open file code?? Any thoughts would be great. Cheers* Debs*