Thank you guys that worked great. Thanks all

You are correct about needing to use the class' size_type type to get the correct variable type.    The example I gave for using a string class for int types was contrived - I just wanted to demonstrate the use of value_type.  But you are correct there as well - more would need to be done to make a completely usable IntStr type.    Peace! -=- James If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Tip for new SUV drivers: Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! DeleteFXPFiles & CheckFavorites (Please rate this post!)

My bad, the wheel does fire the WM_VSCROLL through WM_NOTIFY. it did ever trigger the SB_ENDSCROLL which I was also testing for.

Thanks for the reply. What I am trying to do is disable the user from killing the app in task manager. first the program enabled SE_SYSTEM_NAME and then open the current process with ACCESS_SYSTEM_ALL (or something, dont have the code infront of me). Then I use GetKernelObjectSecurity to get the Dacl of the process and I adjust that by adding a AddAccessDeniedAce for the PROCESS_TERMINATE mask. and apply that to the Security descriptor and use SetKernelObjectSecurity to set it. Now this work for Windows NT. the task manager gets a 'access denied' when trying to kill the app. But in Win XP the Task manager gives itself the SE_DEBUG_NAME rights and can kill the app. How do I get around this? other programs acheive this, like some firewall apps still return access denied when trying to kill the task in Win XP. I understand using the kill cmd line tool from one of the SDK will always force the app to die. but I want to be able to stop the task manager form end task the app. Any ideas? Thanks Luke

I am no expert but have been able to answer a number of simpler VC questions, we can all do our part. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

TerminateProcess ControlService with SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP

Why not just set an id on the control yourself? Then you know what id it has, and you don't have to try to get any automatically created id. --- b { font-weight: normal; }

Ok I can now get the child control rendering, I had to call it's RenderControl... Pretty simple. My issue is now that Control1 inherites from a DataGrid and I want to add a column everytime to the end. I was doing this in the OnInit() method and it was working. until now, because the new column need a reference to the controllist of Control2 which has not been created yet. So if I move the code to OnPrerender, or Render the code does not fial because the Control2 controls has been created, but so have the Control1 controls so the new column does not show up. Any ideas?

Hmm ok. Any idea of why this would happen. Or how did you overcome the problem? Luke

Sure :) Have a look at the DataColumn.Expression description on MSDN. Just add a column to your table and give a valid expression. This even works for aggregation of values from all childs of one parent etc.

Thanks Michael, that made some sense, and after some more looking into the code, i got it fixed. Thanks for the reply Luke.

Ok, very strange I have 2 list views that are trying to do the drag and drop, i also have a RichEditCtrl and in its create method it calls its SetReadOnly(TRUE); method. which makes RegisterDragDrop fail. So i put the readonly bit in the RichEdit.create(..., ES_READONLY) bit but that makes RegisterDragDrop fail. I think this is very weird, the RichEdit.create method gets called before the to listview get created, i'll try swaping them but, still this shouldn't be happening. any ideas? Luke.

I think you ment to DragData dragData; .. get data from selected items and add it to dragData .. .. medium.hGlobal = GlobalAlloc(GMEM_MOVEABLE, sizeof(dragData)); DragData *pMem = (DragData *)GlobalLock(medium.hGlobal); (*pMem) = dragData; //try coping memory, instead of passing stack(!?!?!?) variable ::memcpy(pMem, &dragData, sizeof(DragData)); GlobalUnlock(medium.hGlobal); P.S. what is the reason for using GlobalAlloc?

thanks for that, and I must say sorry. Not long after I posted that I found similar information. So thanks anyhow.. now off to read about winsock :) bye Luke.