Well, that's a different approach. It means that whenever (and wherever) you change m_bLock, you have to get to the menu item and change it. The other approach goes the other way, whenever the menu needs to be shown (and only then), you get the chance to alter its state (enable, check, text, etc.). Besides, it's a general mechanism you can use for any menu item. But I agree that, if that's the only menu item you need to change and if m_bLock is only changed in a single place, your method is simpler :) -- jlr http://jlamas.blogspot.com/[^]

I came to know the problem is within the activeX control itself. I download the latest control and its working fine without errors. Thank you James.

just googled for "RealTime NT" and got some results

Why in the name of God do you want to stop the user from interaction with the computer? That would be the worst thing a developer can do... The way you get most CPU cicles is to set the priority to REALTIME. (more that a system process). Even that is not a wise thing to do. And the best and fastest way to get access to information on api's is to take a peek in MSDN[^]. Multiply it by infinity and take it beyond eternity and you'll still have no idea about what I'm talking about.

Manikandan wrote: only shows junks ("?_?") not the real text... Ok. Then I think the problem is making sure you are using a font that can correctly display the appropriate unicode characters. For example: Courier will not show asian character types (you will just see either a bunch of square blocks, or question marks). However if you display the same using Tahoma, and you have the language packs installed, it should show up correctly. Not all fonts cater for unicode characters, you may have to experiment to see which ones do. I Dream of Absolute Zero

Manikandan wrote: char szSource[10]; strncpy(szSource,W2A(lpSource),MAX_PATH); You've got a buffer overrun bug waiting to happen there. You have a 10-char array but you're telling strncpy that you have MAX_PATH chars available, which is 260. --Mike-- Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ ---- "Linux is good. It can do no wrong. It is open source so must be right. It has penguins. I want to eat your brain."   -- Paul Watson, Linux Zombie

If you use _ttoi, it will use ANSI or wide characters as required, depending on whether you are doing a Unicode build or not (ie if _UNICODE is #defined or not)

SetPriorityClass(GetCurrentProcess(), HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS);

Manikandan wrote: I have a chinese unicode character "Âí". I don't know how to get its unicode equivalent (the value look like this 0x5c0b). It's a horse, man. The value could be between $250 and $1250 depending on his/her ability to run. :laugh:

Did you change both the 16x16 and 32x32 versions of the document icon? Depending on how you have windows explorer setup, only one of these is actually displayed. Dave

Look In my MFC program, I'm trying to disable a menu item with EnableMenuItem(), but it doesn't have any effect on the menu. Why? Best regards, Eugene Pustovoyt

do you mean something more complicated than drawing a rectangle? -c Garbage collection, making life better - for weenies! Image Processing - easy, like Sunday morning.

You will want to look at QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency. Most computers now have this high resolution timer, however some of the older ones do not. IN those cases you will have to rely on the Multimedia timer which has a resolution of 1 millisecond. By the way, I believe the timer resolution on the system timer with WM_TIMER has a resolution of 55 milliseconds. Good Luck. Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!

What kind of ports? Message ports? Now that we've taken care of the educational bit (be precise), I assume you want to access some I/O port (serial, parallel, ...). You talk to (or even write yourself) a device driver. Try searching Google for something like "Windows NT direct I/O".

look up the font metrics stuff in msdn there are all sorts of bits and pieces added together to get the bounding 'box' of text ... leading, ascenders, descenders, etc all fun stuff if you have nothing else to do ;P --- situations to avoid #37: "good morning ... how many sugars do you take in your coffee ... and what was your name again?"

Dude, wrong forum. Try Here. There's something wrong with my account.

For my opinion it's compiled wrong ... you try compile for 32platform and unicode format; because i guess that your pc(with win2000) ... it's disabled a option for loading your bilt format(for win98).