I've never run any arabic (or non western for that matter) OS before, so I can only speculate. If you output only one arabic character, do you get two funny looking characters? If that's the case, it seems that the console is not UNICODE at all. If there's a 1:1 ratio between arabic characters and funny looking characters, then I'd assume that the font used in the console does not have the arabic letters. -- 20 eyes in my head, they're all the same![^]

Thanks for your reply, but could you point out an alternative? Hosam Aly Mahmoud

Thanks for your reply. Your code does the opposite of what I wanted. I would change it to: { RectList::reverse_iterator next = ri; *ri = *(++next); } Thanks anyway. Hosam Aly Mahmoud

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Thank you for the information! Hosam Aly Mahmoud

Thank you for your reply. But shouldn't this be handled in the WM_ERASEBKGND message (or the corresponding OnEraseBkgnd function)? Which one is better? Thank you again. Hosam Aly Mahmoud

Thank you very much for your help John! I do not know how I could thank you, but here is a try: :rose: :) John M. Drescher wrote: Maybe setting the process priority to real time may solve your problem. I thought it would, but I do not know how to do it. Could you please tell me (or give me a link)? I would very much appreciate it. Thank you for all your help! Hosam Aly Mahmoud

Hosam Aly Mahmoud wrote: I tried to use it on my own (with the help of MSDN), but I could not get the results I wanted (yet). I would be very thankful if you could tell me of an article that explains the subject in details. Examples are bountiful, both on MSDN and the Internet (use Google). What exactly is not working for you?

Thank you very much for your appreciated help. Now I want to remove the path from the filename I got from the Browse button. I shall tell you of a way I tried to use (before I read your second reply). I used system ( "cd >> dir" ) to get the program's path, read it in a buffer and then compared it to the first characters in the filename. To take out the path, here is the code I used: for (short i = 0; i < length; i ++) if ( FileName.GetAt(i) != path.GetAt(i) ) { i=-1; break; } if (i == -1) break; for (short j = 0; i <= FileName.GetLength(); i ++, j++) FileName.SetAt (j, FileName.GetAt(i) ); This part of code was inside a loop, and length is the length of the path of the program. FileName is the buffer in which I stored the filename from the browse button. The problem with the above code is that it doesn't work when the program is at the root folder of a partition. What do you think is the reason? I am thinking of using a similar code (with GetModuleFileName instead of system ( "cd >> dir" ). But shouldn't this give me the same problem? If you find that my method was faulty somehow, please tell me. Again thank you for your help. Hosam Aly Mahmoud