Uh, hrrmmm, no I don't have an entry in DDX for that. I guess I thought I didn't need one, because it's a graphics control (running an openGL instance) not a regular control exchanging values from input. The only input it takes is mouse clicks to orient the view. I guess I'll put one in (for DDX_CUSTOM(), eh?) and see what happens. Thanks - @LRG

hmm I don't know - that's never happened to me :) Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

Heh - nah....I took it more as an expression - same thing as "I'm glad we aren't enemies" or "glad we're not working against each other" :) Cheers, Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

Thanks for the insights you guys. Will, I think you're right... in either case the only way for the dialog to be sure that the D3DMATERIAL9 structure is valid is if it maintains one locally and copies it's value to one supplied by a client on request. Sucks, 'cuz that will slow everything down a bit, but I can't see a way around it. -@LRG

In addition to the other replies... Whatever method you choose - resource-only DLL, resource includes, etc., the most important thing is to manage IDs so they don't clash. For example, I personally have a solution with several EXEs that share an MFC extension DLL, and also share common code that is compiled/linked directly into several EXEs. From the start, I set aside blocks of resource IDs for each - one block for the shared DLL, one for common code, and one for EXEs. For new projects, I just have to adjust the _APS_NEXT_xxx values in the resource.h file so the Visual Studio auto-generated IDs start in the proper range of IDs. The info in these technical notes explains the details... TN020: ID Naming and Numbering Conventions[^] TN035: Using Multiple Resource Files and Header Files with Visual C++[^] Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

@largeinsd wrote: what the heck does that mean? The owner is the program that creates the control, so it's responsible for its appearance rather than Windows. Jeremy Falcon Oatmeal, It's What's for Dinner.[^]

When using the microsoft compilers, you can also do that by using the line #pragma once at the top of your header file. glad you found it - I never write a header file without something to force single inclusion Judy

@largeinsd wrote: Automate Explorer (or Firefox) to browse the web and download weather images so they're on my machine when i wake up in the morning? You don't need a browser application to request files from the web. Use the WebClient class and the DownloadFile method to download images. @largeinsd wrote: Create back ups of specific local folders and ftp them to my web server? That depends on how you want the backup. If you just want to copy the files, that's easy using the File class. Use the WebClient class and the UploadFile method to send the files over ftp. --- single minded; short sighted; long gone;

ok, that fits the bill perfectly - thanks!

@largeinsd wrote: ...it gets activated on initialization. The solution to this is to differentiate between initialization and the actual clicking of one of the buttons. I use a bool member variable to denote this. "A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow "To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Luc Pattyn wrote: To state it in a slightly different way, if you do what has been told so far to play the sound backwards, you also will be switching left and right channels, with probably is not be what you want. Right. So when reversing a stereo wave file, you'd want to reverse the block order while preserving the sample order within the blocks. :)

Try enabling the page heap[^] for your process. Follow these steps: 1. Download and install WinDBG[^]. 2. Select “Start”->“All Programs”->“Debugging Tools for Windows”->“Global Flags”. 3. Select the “Image File” tab. 4. In the “Image: (TAB to refresh)” edit control enter the name of your app then press TAB. Just the name with the extension; not the full path. 5. Tick the following: - “Enable page heap” - “Enable heap tail checking” - “Enable heap free checking” - “Enable heap parameter checking” - “Enable heap validation on call” - “Create user mode stack trace database” 6. Press “Apply”. 7. Debug your application. Any debugger will do but with WinDBG you have access to the stack traces of allocations via the !heap –p –a command, for example. When a heap problem is detected a breakpoint will be generated. 8. When done un-tick all the options you ticked, press “Apply” then dismiss GFlags. This step is important as if it’s skipped all applications named as entered in step 4 will run with the page heap enabled. Note that when using the page heap your application will run much slower than normal and consume way more memory. It’s good to have a beefy machine to do such tests; and such tests should be ran regularly on all applications you develop as part of regular testing activities. If I find a part of my application that’s too slow with the page heap enabled I optimize the memory allocation in that region. Steve

:-D I don't think it's embarrassing. Well maybe a little haha but I think first you'll get used to the error message and know it's something like that. Asking someone else to look when I'm stumped on something often helps. Sometimes someone else will see something right away that I've spent much time looking for. Of course I was no help to you on this one - I didn't see it :) Have fun! Mark "Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder