Mike Nordell wrote: Isn't the PSDK still also hosted at the M$ FTP site??? No, I tried that last week. You'll see a directory for the PSDK and in that directory is a text file that has the update site address telling you to see that instead.

Colin Leitner wrote: To the original poster: Try ftp.microsoft.com. It is kind of a dump for old and unsupported tools (ms uses download.microsoft.com for file transfer now) and I think there is at least an october version of the w2k psdk. I thought so to but it's not there anymore. You have to use the psdk update site or get the cd.

Michael Dunn wrote: MS is trying to kill off 9x, plain and simple. (I've already given my opinion on this a few times, so I won't start ranting again.) Too bad that hobbyist programmers who can't afford (or just don't want to use) NT have to suffer. I have no use for NT at home although I have the install CD. I hate the bloated fisher price XP OS and what if I need to reinstall from a hard drive crash or new HD, MB, etc. I have to call MS to get it reactivated? LOL I don't think so.

That's ok. I just got back and got the November 2001 SDK CD from work. ;P

loket wrote: I think it is not a day to late to kill off the 9x versions. And for a hobby pogrammer who uses it and are not interested in NT, why would they even need the latest PSDK's? What if your not a hobby programmer, not developing for NT and your base OS is 98? Latest SDKs to apply new features that do work for 98 as well as XP? I know alot of clients not even using Win2k or even XP. Just makes sense to me to dev on the OS your designing for. We use Win2k at work as well as 98 - both with VC.

well, I never gave it much thought as to why. I thought it would be just easy to do it testing and dev on one OS. I'm still not going to use XP! Rather use Win2k.

Anders Molin wrote: It's the same thing with VS.NET, does'nt work on Win95/98/ME, but I can't see why anyone wanna develop on the os'es anyway. At work we use Win2k, but at home I thought why not kill two birds with stone. So I take it that I should be dev on NT based systems anyway?

Where is it possible for one to get all previous versions of the platform sdk specifically November 2001 version? I installed the latest to find out that you have to have windowsxp??? to even use it??? What the hell is this? A way for MS to force developers and users to upgrade to the newest and latest OS to add more cash into Gates pockets? Would they think keeping it cross-platform? RC.EXE doesn't run on 98?? When I develop for win98 on up I would like to develop on the least common denominator!! Duh! Makes it simple and easy that way. Frustrated MS-Wanker dev/user.:mad:

Raskolnikov wrote: Is there an Remove Member Variable Wizzard or something similar? What version of VC aare you using? 6 or 7? I know with with VC6 you can use the class wizzard and select the variables tab you can delete your variables there. If you added a member variable your self you can use the class window. Right click and select delete. Raskolnikov wrote: c) Well written code is self documenting. UpdateData() and UpdateControls() have straight forward meanings. What does UpdateData(FALSE) mean. What was their reasoning? Am I missing something? Um, did they have any reasoning with that? :laugh: From my experience, it's best to not even bother with UpdateData() and just use control variables. It's just to much of a hassle IMO . Here's a good link that will explain better than what I could do. http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/avoidupdatedata.asp[^] Cheers :)

I don't think there is an actually a way to do that. Once your app is drawn to the screen your app will be in that DC. Other than what Lauren suggested is what I would of done but I don't know exactly what you want. If you find a way I like to know how you did it.:)

Anonymous wrote: I'm trying to create a dialog window, that becomes opaque when a mouse hovers over it and when the mouse leaves the window, it should become transparent again. My problem here is that when a mouse is over a control in the dialog window, it doesn't work the way I want - the dialog does not recognize that the mouse is hovering over it. What should I do? You should check for the mouse hover in the controls also. Derive a class fromm your controls and override the mouse events you need to. Anonymous wrote: I actually would like to do it a little bit more different: when I move the mouse over the upper-left corner of the client area of a window the buttons should appear. Define a rectangle with in your view in the upper-left corner of the client area and use that rectangle to test if the mouse is over it and act accordingly. Off the top of my head I can't remember the mouse event, on mouse move? Use the point you get to see if that point is in your rectangle and if so, draw your controls.:)

Shog9 wrote: MS wanted IBM to put a unique ID in the original PC to aid in copyprotection. Didn't they actually do this with Intel? Intel cpus had a unique ID at one time I thought.:confused:

Not to forget each port added uses another Irq which limits how much more cool stuff you can add on. I'm using every Irq now. Then again USB takes care of that.:~

Why not subclass CMenu with CMyCMenu and define the commands and define the handlers in it's message map? Or in your mainframe class define a handler in the message map like: ON_COMMAND(ID_APP_DOTHIS, DoFunction) Would either of those be possible?

I got an idea. Why don't we artificially(sp)? impregnate an ape with human semem and see if it gives birth. If it gives birth then I'll believe evolution since an ape is supposedly our "common ancestor". ;P

Hey Colin I just noticed when you open the file the option CFile::typeText is not specified. MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/\_mfc\_cfile.3a3a.write.asp Also: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/\_mfc\_cfile.3a3a.cfile.asp "CFile::typeText Sets text mode with special processing for carriage return–linefeed pairs (used in derived classes only)." You should get your carrage returns then. Also carrage return\linefeed is counted as one character. Hope I helped. :)

Maybe you need to add the \r carrage return?

cFoo.Write(_T("TEST\n\r"), 6);

Does that work??

I keep maintaining a 2D chat client/server app and every time I set out to learn something new or better I apply it to my app. It was my first windows app that I attempted. My wife likes these 2D chats and their kinda of fun. I told her I could program one better. ;) Three years later and I'm still making it better. :~ LOL I was a big windows hater in the beginning and was determined to stay Unix/Linux or Dos based - that quickly changed when I seen the bigger paycheck. So everything for a reason. Since going for the windows based work I'd have to say I'v learned more than ever from the experience. It would be cool to see how you did your game - That is if you really want to give it up. I might do another app for codeproject dealing with unlimited dynamic menu sub items for a bookmark idea I did. Sort of like IE explorer. I never seen decent examples of that. Anyways I'm rambling on. :zzz: Cheers Norm

It's actually making sense to me now. The graphics object is associated with a dc then you can use that graphics object to draw, paint or what ever you can dream of. You can even have multiple graphics objects associated with a dc and each one is independent which I think is pretty cool. I was trying to use multiple dc's associated with multiple graphics objects and wondering why each object I had was independent. LOL It's just one big wrapper for GDI. Looks like MS is trying to integrate GDI+ more closely to DirectX.

I like the GDI+ compared to GDI just for the image support alone. I still find it confusing since to me it seems you have to convert some things to GDI+. For example Rect to Crect when you use GetClientRect() or creating a bmp with CreateCompatibleBitmap() then using the HBITMAP handle for GDI+ Bitmap::FromHBITMAP(). Or am I missing something? Other than that I love the new bush and image classes.