This made the job, just some info for anyone else, using this with topmost property to true will not work, i think this is a bug on windows forms

Thank you that was the one

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Thanks this has though me a lot,thanks for your time :cool:

Oh i see, i wasn't reading the MSDN documentation :p

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Yes it helps, i now understand more of the problem here so this is compiler dependent then. Thanks for your time i have learned from all you!!

Hi, the way I understand it, the ControlPaint.DrawReversible methods don't need the help of other windows or processes to execute immediately, and calling them a second time undoes the drawing of the first time, so if some of them remain visible, it suggests you didn't execute them in pairs in the right order (i.e. A A B B C C). :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, and improve readability.

Only trying to help. I am convinced you would know when you looked it up, however I wanted to save you the trouble as you were concentrating on your game and/or celebrating your winnings. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, and improve readability.

It depends on how you want to run the store I guess. You can't sell what isn't in stock, so your points of sale have to know and update stock quantities; how often do you order? how about running the order program once a day, checking all items are sufficiently stocked? :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum Please use < PRE > tags for code snippets, it preserves indentation, and improves readability.

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you will need 2 programs for this. One will run as autorun (startup) and set a value in registry (say reboot = true). Another program whent started by user, will check this value in registry and if it is true then display your messagebox and set the value to false.

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Ok guys thanks i will have to do something else for this requirement.

You could make the lengthy operation run in a separate thread within the activex control. «_Superman_» I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.

David i can not make it work with Chinese chars or any other chars above 255 :( must i write my own UrlEncodeUnicode function?

I Know that there are counterparts to Ansi o Widechar Functions. The thing is that i can not find the Widechar version of CFileDialog There is no CFileDialogW, there is a LPOPENFILENAMEW but how do you use it with CFIleDialog

There's a system event which should be what you're looking for documented here.[^] There are three kinds of people in the world - those who can count and those who can't...