or you could look at good old _sopen, passing the _SH_DENYRW flag  onwards and upwards...

I think the Edit control of the TreeView (for label editing) on a dialog doesn't handle the ENTER and ESC keys, so they are processed by the system DefDlgProc and directed to DEFPUSHBUTTON. But I think that it's kind of a bug, because the ListView Control does handle the ENTER and ESC keys. I will try to subclass the label edit control of the TreeView and handle the WM_GETDLGCODE message and see if it solves the problem.

Ok, David, that's it. I didn't know this message. I will give it a try. Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction.

See CWindowImpl::GetCurrentMessage(). You'll find the recipient HWND in the MSG-struct, i.e. GetCurrentMessage()->hwnd. 2) That's because CComboBoxT doesn't derive from CWindowImpl which is the template which implements SubclassWindow. CComboBoxT is just a wrapper for an already existing window class, thus it isn't supposed to subclass another class. I never use DDX-stuff, so I wouldn't know how to deal with it. :shrug: -- Watcha' gonna do, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!?

someone changed ur system date to a forward date and then you edited the files (and changed the date back) and saved it happens to me all the time , just edit the files once more and their modifed date will be taken care of (after changing the time) ;) Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -Mahatma Gandhi