That's because you gave it five seconds instead of trying to find out what it can do that notepad can't - quite a lot, as it happens. Anyway - I'm not trying to convert people to using Brief (I haven't used it myself for years). If you think Brief is bad, try vi. Or worse, edlin. Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

Use Double Buffering[^]

Hi, did you recognise the property "Columns" of System.Windows.Forms.ListView? It's a collection of columns that should have all properties you'll need. Kind regards

The easiest way is probably to let the button draw itself then draw over the top of it - so, call DefWindowProc at the start of your owner draw handler then do your own drawing

GREAT! it makes sense.

You are correct, I noticed the habaviors now. thank you, I should investigate more before I ask.

Cool. Let us know the results! From Technical Note TN006: "Microsoft Windows implements what are essentially virtual functions in window classes using its messaging facility. Due to the large number of messages involved, providing a separate virtual function for each Windows message results in a prohibitively large vtable. Also, since the number of system-defined Windows messages changes over time, and since a specific application may want to define some Windows messages of its own, the message-map mechanism provides a level of indirection that prevents interface changes from breaking existing code." Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ "Great job team! Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails."

Yes you can create a class which can provide you the desired objects. such class can be a Factory. Stack *pStack = CFactory::GetStack(n); where n -> type of stack. Sameer();

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You may use a smart pointer that implements reference counting, e.g. boost::shared_ptr, instead of raw pointer.

take tools->option-> in the debug tab u can find a check box Labeled "Display unicode strings" Check it. nave

It's very strange that I can use _tstof() in VS.net 2003 but not VC6, even I include the file tchar.h. Maybe I need the latest Platform SDK?:wtf:

Perhaps SwapMouseButton will help you. Steve