marcomars wrote: my mfc application is performing a time consuming operation. Estimations aside, can you put this time-consuming operation in a separate thread? That way, no matter how long it takes or how off your estimations are, your main UI thread is not being blocked and remains responsive. "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

thank you !!!!! :rolleyes: you sugestion was wery useful!!! Marco.

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Search for "hyperlink controls" here. "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

How about creating two buttons, one with text and the other with a bitmap? Disable/enable them accordingly. marcomars wrote: I can instead change the button caption with SetWindowText: why is this? Because that's the way it is supposed to work. Per MSDN: The SetWindowText function changes the text of the specified window's title bar (if it has one). If the specified window is a control (e.g., button), the text of the control is changed. "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

Why do you try to get a pointer to your own class? Try this code: GetWindowRect(&rc); rc.right -= 100; ScreenToClient(&rc); MoveWindow(&rc);

It should :confused: This: UINT CSssDlg::OnNcHitTest(CPoint point) { CRect rc; GetClientRect(&rc); ClientToScreen(&rc); return rc.PtInRect(point) ? HTCAPTION : CDialog::OnNcHitTest(point); } Does. In the dialog its self - with ON_WM_NCHITTEST() added to the dialogs messgae map

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