Music appreciation is not something that is easy to discuss as there are as many good and bad "answers" Euro-Dance is pretty much "formulaic" (have a listen at the di.fm euro-dance channel) and tend to be annoying after a while. I listen to mostly beatless ambient, with some "classic" techno and some "minimal" and "tech-house" techno (electronic music is a bit too much split into a multitude of genres and sub-genres!). As in much of life little pleasures, starting to get interested in a field (in your case electronic music), the pleasure is to discover what you like and dislike and experiment with whatever you can find; and now, there are so many free and legal places to find good tracks and mixes that it is a lot more easier than it was 20 years ago. Watched code never compiles.

See the System.DateTimeOffset datatype.

Yep, in order for the keyboard hook to work, you have to turn off the VS Hosting process. I don't know why - you just do. I also don't have any documentation on this. I'm just speaking from my own experience. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

Mr. Pattyn, My experience thus far has been that the main method only sets the initial thread's apartment model, not the default for future threads. In Christ, Aaron Laws http://ProCure.com

Dear Mr. MacCutchan, Good catch. This doesn't exactly explain the fact that I was able to get 2,075 characters into the command line. Well, either way, I still have a limit, even if it's not the 2048 limit, that I'm hitting. Thanks for your comment. In Christ, Aaron Laws http://ProCure.com

Maybe the way to do it is by painting on the code window with alpha colors??? get the top point and the bottom point, and paint the following color onto the code window between those points for the width of the form: 255,255,255,200 (r,g,b,a)?? In Christ, Aaron Laws http://ProCure.com

I use FreeConsole for applications than can be run in either console or GUI mode.

Oh you're already done, that's nice :) I meant the managed part of DirectX 9, I've used OpenGL both natively and through the Tao framework but found it easier to work with in a native environment, but that's just an opinion of course

HA! Who is in danger of being too qualified? In Christ, Aaron Laws http://ProCure.com

Sorry, I was reaching for the page 1 link and accidentally 1-rated you. Silver member by constant and unflinching longevity.

Touche! Good one. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Dear Mr. ely_bob, Thanks for your response! You know what...now that you mention it, It might be using GDI+ that the text is being drawn. I just realized that the TextBox control is used for EDITING the value, not displaying it! I keep forgetting that it's programmed that way. I'll look at it. So you think that maybe what's happenning is that the x += 2; is not persisting; okay, I'll check it out. Thanks again. [====EDIT====] It looks like this is the code used to draw the strings: context.Graphics.DrawString(label, _font, _brush, clipRect, _format); Yup...just checked, and I see where it drew my string. So...let's see. the arguments label = "0.0\0.0\-25.0\0.0\0.0\-25.0\0.0\0.0\-25.0\0.0\0.0\-25.0\0.0\0.0\-25.0 " _font = {[Font: Name=Microsoft Sans Serif, Size=8.25, Units=3, GdiCharSet=0, GdiVerticalFont=False]} _brush = {System.Drawing.SolidBrush} clipRect = {X=418,Y=768,Width=338,Height=16} _format = {[StringFormat, FormatFlags=FitBlackBox, NoWrap, NoClip]} Now, I'm reading about the format.FitBlackBox property, it says "...By default, characters are repositioned to avoid any overhang." I would guess that this is the effect I'm complaining about, but after changing that, I still have the effect. Let me know what you think. In Christ, Aaron Laws http://ProCure.com

If you want further help, drop the Mr. ;P I've used commands like this to move files within my project folder structure copy "$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)" "../../../Common/$(TargetFileName)" only two letters away from being an asset

Dear Sirs, Oh!! I was wondering why my message didn't seem to hit its mark properly -- I meant to put a wink in there after `novice'!! I'm just kidding! Now I see that the wink was edited out...how do I get a little smiley face in the text? Sorry if this was taken wrong. In Christ, Aaron Laws http://ProCure.com

Yes, that example may well be a good place for multiple returns, but it may also simply be a bad piece of code too. My concern about having multiple returns is that it's too close to: // do stuff if ( exp ) goto end ; // more stuff end: return whatever ; In my opinion, multiple-return should be as _un_common as goto (that goes for continue and break (in loops*) as well). Multiple-return, continue, break, and goto are the right tool for some jobs, but they shouldn't be the developer's first choice. * Break and goto are required in switch statements X| .

LimitedAtonement wrote: the ListView is useless: it only approximates my needs,'' I didn't say that. I said that I would rather find a 3rd party control that comes as close as possible to my needs and not rely on Microsofts implementation which only generally does what I need. You use the correct tool in the draw for the job at hand. If you want to go through all the pain of hanging additional functionality on a general MS control, more power to you. But, I'll use the one that is already pretty close if not dead on to what I need without spending the extra money on developing my own. Trust me, I do that enough already. When it costs me, say, $395 to get a control that does what I need, why should I spend 100 hours at, say, $40 an hour ($4,000) developing a control to do the same thing? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...