We use a try-catch around AfxDaoInit() function to test if DAO is working correctly and abort/warn if it is not. It throws a CDaoException if something isn't right. Joel Lucsy

Have you caught the exception and analyzed it? You should be able to get detailed error information if you use try{}catch{} and take a look at the error codes being returned. Are you 100% sure that the database itself was copied over exactly? If both machines are trying to access the same DB, then you may want to look at the DB driver versions installed on each machine. Your development platform may be using different drivers.

HPSI wrote: At some point, redistributing the MFC DLLs is going to cause you and your customers problems. Putting them in the system directory is a crash waiting to happen. How do you know someone else won't come along, and replace your DLLs with another version? If you absolutely have to redistribute them, then put them in the app's directory. Otherwise, you should prepare yourself for customer reports like "I just installed your app, and now this other app doesn't work." Agreed!

Use SHGetSpecialFolderPath() with CSIDL_PERSONAL as the nFolder parameter. [ ](http://www.canucks.com)Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little "You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03 Within you lies the power for good - Use it!

Make sure that the property sheet/pages have the 'control' style set. This style (DS_CONTROL) tells Windows to include them in the tab order of their parent window. Software Zen: delete this;

Try separating the text from the accelerator by using a tab. Ex: &My Menu Item\tCtrl+M

Just Have a Look at the http://www.codeguru.com/forum/printthread.php?threadid=224993

CSting doesn't allocated anything till you initialize it. Since you didn't allocated, you got crash. Change your code to the following: cFile.Read(strFileContents.GetBuffer(SIZE), cFile.GetLength()); After finishing working with the string call strFileContents.ReleaseBuffer();

John Clump wrote: Is there a function that I can use to determine if the file is open or not? I'm sure there is a better way to do this, however you could check for a file with the same name as the database, but with a file extension of ".ldb". This is file that contains record locking information. It appears when your Access application is open and is deleted when Access is closed. Again I think there is probably a better way to do this, but it is another option. :) Nick Parker You see the Standards change. - Fellow co-worker

Turns out one doubles up quotes within the data string. Thanks for the link! ;)

Thanks! Your code worked great, except the dropdown height was not preserved, and I could not change it via SetDroppedWidth(). So the user could not see the "Yes" and "No" I put in the combobox. The font and such were preserved. Why couldn't I change the dropped width?

I could do that, and still might. Creating the file isn't too bad, but parsing it back out will be a chore, possible to do but a chore. I was hoping DAO could read the file back for me. Oh, well :rolleyes:

In the Internet Explorer Options->Advanced-->Browsing tab, check "Disable Script Debugging" and uncheck "Display a notification about every script error".

See April 98 C++ Q&A in MSDN Q How can I tell which version of a particular module (DLL) is installed on my system? I am trying to figure out which version of comctl32.dll is installed. I have seen code that calls GetProcAddress to try getting various functions like InitCommonControlsEx to determine the version based on which functions are present. This seems kludgy to me. What is the right way to get the version? A Well, there are two ways: the easy way and the hard way. The easy way is to call a special new entry DllGetVersion. The only problem is, while comctl32.dll supports this function, not all DLLs have it. If there's no DllGetVersion, you have to use the hard way—namely, the FileVersion API, which is perhaps one of the most confusing APIs you will ever come across.............. (see MSDN)

I used a class very very useful : CxSkinButton If you want to have button of every shape and bitmap, try this link and I think you'll be surprised...;) http://www.codeproject.com/buttonctrl/CxSkinButton.asp Maybe you could tell me something too ?... Actually I'm trying to display more than one bmp at the same location but it doesn't work properly... I use the SetWindowPos function to place the bitmap and stretch it (or shrink it) to the correct size. It works well for the position and the size but not for the Z-Order (the first is over the second and I want the contrary). Setting the first parameter of the SetWindowPos to '&wndTop' does not change anything. If you could help me... Should computing stay as a source of benefit or become like knowledge : free and opened to every one ?...

my codes was run normally! if possible, please send your more codes *.h ---------------------------------------- class AFX_EXT_CLASS CLineStyleComboBox : public CComboBox { protected: virtual void MeasureItem( LPMEASUREITEMSTRUCT lpMIS); virtual void DrawItem( LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDIS); virtual int CompareItem(LPCOMPAREITEMSTRUCT lpCIS); //{{AFX_MSG(CLineStyleComboBox) afx_msg int OnCreate( LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct ); //}}AFX_MSG DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP() public: void AddStyleItem(int Style) { AddString((LPCTSTR)Style);} int SelectItem(int Style); }; *.cpp ---------------------------------------- #define LSTYLE_ITEM_HEIGHT 18 BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CLineStyleComboBox, CComboBox) //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CLineStyleComboBox) ON_WM_CREATE() //}}AFX_MSG_MAP END_MESSAGE_MAP() int CLineStyleComboBox::OnCreate( LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct ) { int nRet = CComboBox::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct); if( nRet==-1 ) return nRet; static int styles[] = { PS_SOLID,PS_DASH,PS_DOT,PS_DASHDOT,PS_DASHDOTDOT,PS_NULL }; for(int i=0;iitemHeight = LSTYLE_ITEM_HEIGHT; } void CLineStyleComboBox::DrawItem(LPDRAWITEMSTRUCT lpDIS) { CDC* pDC = CDC::FromHandle(lpDIS->hDC); COLORREF Color = (lpDIS->itemState & ODS_SELECTED)?RGB(0xff,0,0):RGB(0,0,0); int nPenStyle = int(lpDIS->itemData); CPen Pen( nPenStyle,1, Color ); CPen * pOldPen = pDC->SelectObject( &Pen ); pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT); int y = (lpDIS->rcItem.top+lpDIS->rcItem.bottom)>>1; pDC->MoveTo( lpDIS->rcItem.left,y ); pDC->LineTo( lpDIS->rcItem.right,y ); pDC->SelectObject( pOldPen ); } int CLineStyleComboBox::CompareItem(LPCOMPAREITEMSTRUCT lpCIS) { return int(lpCIS->itemData1)-int(lpCIS->itemData2); } int CLineStyleComboBox::SelectItem(int Style) { int n = GetCount(); for(int i=0;i

This is the technique i use (this is probably an MFC-only technique): Create the toolbar with a placeholder button at the position you want the combo box to be. Give the placeholder button the same ID as the combo box. Enter a description for the placeholder button. Put a newline within the description; all text after the newline will be the tooltip. After the toolbar is created, modify the placeholder button to be as wide as you wish the combo box to be, and make it a separator. Make the combo box a child of the toolbar, give it the same ID and position as the placeholder button (the ID bit is critical to having it work). Set the owner of the combo box to be the window you wish to recieve combo box messages. If the toolbar is in a CFrameWnd-derived window, you should be good to go. If not, you'll have to do a little extra work to handle tooltip notification messages, but otherwise it's pretty much the same. good luck! farewell goodnight last one out turn out the lights Smashing Pumpkins, Tales of a Scorched Earth

That worked great! Thanks for the help!

May be try this GetDlgItem(IDC_BTN_ADDITEM)->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE); GetDlgItem(IDC_BTN_ADDITEM)->MoveWindow(rect); GetDlgItem(IDC_BTN_ADDITEM)->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);

John Clump wrote: I want to stop the control from displaying the properties menu when the user right clicks on it. I found a question someone asked previously about doing this, but I am still not quite sure how to do this. What should I override to do this, and how? If all you want to do is disable the menu and not change it thats easy:) IDocHostUIHandler::ShowContextMenu and return S_OK HTH Laterz!!!;P "An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes in his or her field" - Niels Bohr