Answer to (b): If you want MFC message maps to work, you'll have to override toolbar's OnCmdMsg. You should call the view's OnCmdMsg first: BOOL CYourToolbar::OnCmdMsg(...) { if (m_pParent->OnCmdMsg(...)) { return TRUE; } return CToolBar::OnCmdMsg(...); } Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

I think you have to get a pointer to the edit window of the combobox instead of the drop-down window. You're resizing the wrong thing. "...the staggering layers of obcenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

I believe you can make the buttons flat in the resource editor. Christian After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

Look in the List Control section here on CodeProject, I was just there. Bret Faller Odyssey Computing, Inc.