Thanks to everyone at CodeProject! It appears that the original post may not be clear. Therefore, consider the following code snippet which includes much more information about the problem and the (failed) attemtps to resolve it. Again, for reasons this beginner has yet to understand, PlaySound works fine with a filename constructed from a CString and a random number (/path/filename1.wav), but fails when concatenated CStrings are used to create a resouce identifier (IDR_WAVE_1). Please consider the code and coments below. //Create random resource ID (similar approach used to create random wave file names) int m\_nRandomSound; m\_nRandomSound = getrandom( 500, 509 ); //Place the random number into the variable n\_nRandomRecord CString m\_sStrRandomSound; m\_sStrRandomSound = ""; CString m\_sStrRandomResourcePrefix; //Create the resource prefix m\_sStrRandomResourcePrefix = "IDR\_WAVE\_"; m\_sStrRandomSound.Format("%d", m\_nRandomSound); //Convert the random integer to a CString //Concatentate the strings into the resource identifier CString m_sStrRandomResourcePrefixWav; m_sStrRandomResourcePrefixWav = m_sStrRandomResourcePrefix + m_sStrRandomSound; //Set the resource identifier directly CString m_sStrRandomResourcePrefixWav2; m_sStrRandomResourcePrefixWav2="IDR_WAVE_503"; // // //Demonstrate function similar method that plays sounds using concatenated CString of path/filename PlaySound(m_sStrRandomSoundPathWav, GetModuleHandle(NULL), SND_FILENAME|SND_SYNC ); //PLAYS from concatenated CString //(e.g. \path\filename?.wav - where ? is an integer converted to a CString) PlaySound(MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_WAVE_503), GetModuleHandle(NULL), SND_SYNC|SND_RESOURCE ); //PLAYS IDR_WAVE_503 //which is directly entered an not subtituted in any way // // //ATTEMPTS TO EMPLOY CONCATENATED STRING TO PLAY RANDOM WAVE FILE //PlaySound(MAKEINTRESOURCE(m_sStrRandomResourcePrefixWav), GetModuleHandle(NULL), SND_SYNC|SND_RESOURCE ); //error C2440: 'type cast' : cannot convert from 'class CString' to 'unsigned short' //included for completeness //PlaySound(IDR_WAVE_503, GetModuleHandle(NULL), SND_SYNC|SND_RESOURCE ); //error C2664: 'PlaySoundA' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const int' to 'const char *' //included for completeness PlaySound(m_sStrRandomResourcePrefixWav2, GetModuleHandle(NULL), SND_SYNC|SND_RESOURCE ); //Compiles b

Try posting the SW_RESTORE command to the application.

Well my reply didn't make sense. Your post clearly states "modeless" - I don't know where I got "modal" from :) I'll try again... Where are you trying to access the rich edit control from? Within the dialog class or from another class? You shouldn't need to find the window. You should be able to keep a CRichEditCtrl member variable in the dialog class. From within the dialog class, you can use that variable directly to manipulate the control. From outside the dialog class, you can either make the control variable public and directly access it through the dialog object, or better yet, add methods to the dialog class which internally use the control member variable to access the control. lctrncs wrote: In one part of my program (immediately after dialog creation) statements such as mDlg->OnDialogFunction(); appear to work fine, while in other parts of the program (such as OnPreparePrinting) this tactic fails. You'll need to make sure your mDlg variable is accessible from wherever you need it. Where (what class) is mDlg located? Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

Thank you! EM_SETOPTIONS with the ECO_READONLY flag set rings the bel when the user attempts to edit the view, and does allow scrolling. Thanks again! It appears you are the person who helped me before. Your assistance is very much appreciated! "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman, Minority Report to the Official Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash

Drums!? My little band needs a drummer badly. Do you like Pink Floyd? Do you live anywhere near Colorado? When you get close with your product, send me a version and I will happily test it for you. I once turned down a full time job teaching college for a six-week gigue testing network protocol analyzers for HP. I stayed a year and a half, then came back as a full consultant. Those were the days! Testing is specialty of mine and since you have been so helpful, I would gladly punish your software for you. Bwaahahahahhaaaa! If you send me your email address through that web site I sent you to, we can both avoid public postings. Best of luck. Groff PS: Thanks for the heads up on the download error. I experienced the same thing and learned that the problem occurs when the complete file does not download. It is about 5.5 meg, so it is probably easy to try to start early. I will probably put up a little warning page in my "free time." GS "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman, Minority Report to the Official Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash

Overall, what did you do to finally get it going? "Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed" - 2 Timothy 2:15 "Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb

After 10 winks or so, I thought I would run through the cases again to make sure I didn't miss anything. This time, it appears to work in release config with the following changes to the original code ... AfxInitRichEdit in the initinstance alterations to the classwizard's incorrect messagemap from on_notify to on_en_setfocus alterations to the handler to reflect change in messagemap including removing all arguments in the handler - and then the function maybe the key ingredient here was sleep! I think I go get more. Thanks for your help! "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman, Minority Report to the Official Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash

Possible workaround: after trying many things such as calling the complete or partial selchange functions that did work, breaking the edit box clearing code out into a separate function etc. I appear to have found something that will work. Inserting a pComboBox3->Paste(); line like this: pComboBox3->SetFocus; pComboBox3->SetEditSel(0,-1); pComboBox3->Paste; pComboBox3->SetEditSel(0,-1); pComboBox3->Clear(); appears to clear the edit box. It may not be pretty - but, well - neither am I. Thanks to all of you who considered my problem and especially to WhiteSky who responded. Thanks again to everyone at Code Project. "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman, Minority Report to the Official Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Crash

While I understand your position, I don't share the same concerns you do. If you post code out on the web, you can expect that people will use it. I spent a lot of time working on code that I ultimately posted on Code Project. I also decided to put an Apache-style license on a couple things. But that doesn't mean I have the time or energy to track everyone down with lawsuits if they decide to break that license. I'm happy to see people use my code to get their jobs done, but if someone wants to use my code without giving me credit/money/women there's not much I can do to stop that. It is very likely that someone could come up with a very similar solution without even having seen my stuff.