You must also have the database drivers installed. My neighbours think I am crazy - but they don't know that I have a trampoline. All they see my head bobbing up and down over the fence every five seconds

No, I never figured it out. I just gave up and moved on to a different function. It took me a while, but I got SQLBrowseServer to work for me. halblonious

Thank you very much for you response, but can you please give me a little more in-depth syntax on how to do this? Maybe an example? Thanks again. Evan halblonious

At a guess, AnnotationID and ImageID are numeric (integer?) types. Try removing the quoting around them so it's just VALUES(1,2,'Capsule') Of course, there may also be uniqueness constraints which stop you inserting the same values more than once... Steve S

Using the CDatabase class to read an Access databases By Zahirul Haque also on this site shows how to cinnect to the actual MDB file if you are using ACCESS Ger

For one, you no longer have MDB files, you have MDF and LDF files. However, these files are not self-contained like the MDBs, so you can't just move them around. It's best to let SQL Server deal with it if you're just starting out. For two, if you're using DAO to connect to Access, I'd recommend switching to ADO if possible. For three, to *easily* manage your database, you'll need a replacement for a tool for a program that comes with the real SQL Server called Enterprise Manager. Here's one such replacement... http://www.webattack.com/get/sqlexecms1.html[^] And lastly, SQL Server comes with many tools that MSDE does not. One in particular is the DTS wizard and editor. You can run a DTS package with MSDE, but not create one (unless you do everything via code that is). The last I heard Microsoft was selling SQL Server Developer Edition for only $49. It's way better to develop your DB with the real deal, and then just bring it over to MSDE when you're done. Jeremy Falcon

halblonious wrote: Where can I find how to do this? If you're not supporting Windows95 you can use TransparentBlt, otherwise search the Windows Developers Journal article backlog at www.wdj.com, I have an article there that shows you how. halblonious wrote: So, is there a way to do something like save the visual aspects of a CStatic as a bitmap, and then layer it for display? Or would that cause weird laggy stuff for the user, or other lame problems? Statics are just text, so store the text, and draw it onto a bitmap and show that. Other controls, you have to worry about them getting click messages and so on as well, you should develop a control to hold other controls, display them and get them their messages properly. Sounds like hell to me. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

OK, thanks. I don't suppose you could give me a quick run-down or a little example of how to do that? I've been programming for like a year now, but everything's still news to me. halblonious

halblonious wrote: Wouldn't that use a ton of memory No, not an issue. You will hardly notice it in the memory footprint of your app. halblonious wrote: is there really no way to avoid it? There are two ways for storing multiple values of the same type (like those of your shapes): 1.List 2.Array Theoritically both can replace each other, but there are rules of thumbs for their usage: A list should be preferred if the number of elements is not known, and an array if their number is well known. The reson for the why lies in the memory management of them (i.e. the way the stored items are organised in memory). Using a list you can easily (i.e: quickly) access the next or previous element but you can only slowly access the elemnt at a given number from the begining. Arrays can access elements at given position quickly but they are slow if you change their size. If you allocated 1000 CStatic's in an array and later it turns out that you will need 1001 of them, all the stored data in the 1000 CStatic's must be reordered by the memory management which might go slowly. In MFC they are called array and list(e.g see CObArray and CObList in MSDN), but in STL (Satandard Template Library - which is Microsoft independent) they are called vector and list. BTW: ask another question on this forum about your app's design describing what in detail what you want. You will save a bunch of time by not trying to go unachievable ways. Peter Molnar

IF you are on Win2k/XP you have a built-in ready-made solution free of charge: ShellExecute(NULL,"open","rundll32.exe","C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\shimgvw.dll,ImageView_Fullscreen c:\\yourimage.jpg",NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL); This runs a helper exe (rundll32.exe) which does not do anything except running the specified function from the specified dll which show your pic in the image viewer. The same thing happens when you click on an image file (if Office is not installed, Office registers its own image viewer, but you are free to run shimgvw.dll on your own even then) Bunburry

Thanks for the reply, and I may have to resort to that, but I'm trying not to have to subclass the rich edit if I can help it. There must be some other way, I'm hoping. halblonious

Sweet! It works! It seems so simple now that you've told me. Hehe...I'm a dummy. Thanks a ton! halblonious

I've got it working now. Thank you for your comment. halblonious

Than you! halblonious

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