dan neely wrote: it's a resurrection of the segmented memory model and requires significantly more effort to implement than standard x86. If your "It" is referring to PAE mode, then you would be incorrect. PAE mode does not use segmentation: It uses Paging. "When the PAE paging mechanism is enabled, the processor supports two sizes of pages: 4-KByte and 2-MByte." (P:3-34 Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3A:System Programming Guide, Part 1).

I found the answer on another forum. All I needed to do was to make the GLOBAL definition static due to the fact that the the method it is called from is static. Very simple as I expected it might be. Code as follows: public class FileOrganizer { private **static** Form1 mainForm; [STAThread] static void Main() { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false); mainForm = new Form1(); Application.Run(mainForm); } It's amazing how much of a run-around I was given on this forum.

Mike Bluett wrote: 1. How did you know that ISO 8859-1 was represented by 28591 (in .NET) (i.e., where would I have looked to find such information)? In the documentation on the page about the Encoding class, there is a list of encodings: MSDN Library: Encoding class[^] Mike Bluett wrote: 2. The fact that you were able to respond with an answer to this type of question conveys to me that you know a fair amount about programming. What kinds of things did you do to get to the understanding of programming that you have today? Well, I did a lot of programming. :) I have used many different programming languages on several different platforms. It helps to have done a bit of machine level programming, so that you know what really happens below the surface. Also, the last years I have been hanging out a lot in forums like this, helping people. You learn a lot from that. :) Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

First, I gave you bad (or at least incomplete) advice. I meant to say to use the Application.Idle event rather than the Load event. Calling Close from the Load event can cause a memory leak. You could do something like: public partial class MainForm : Form { public MainForm() { InitializeComponent(); // Code to determine whether to close form if (ShouldClose) { Application.Idle += new EventHandler(Application\_Idle); } } void Application\_Idle(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.close(); } } The Hide and Close methods don't work in the constructor because the Form is still being constructed. And in any case you don't want to close the form at this point, assuming the calling code looks something like: Application.Run(new MainForm()); If MainForm is closed and disposed before it is constructed, then Application.Run will throw an ObjectDisposedException.

That reminds me of when I worked at writing printer drivers. The group that wrote the code that ran on the machine and scheduled things and rendered the pages and the UI for it was all in Java. I asked why use Java and their biggest selling point was that it was portable. So I asked if they were planning to port it to a different platform and they reply that it would never happen because there were kernal changes on Solaris that they put in to make things run and that the guy that did them is no longer working with the company. So they decided to use a nice portable language on a system where porting was not even feasible. Having the source code to the database really does not do anything for you unless you are going to put in your own things to it - and most people won't. If you are working on something to try to sell to others, there is alot more things to do with website, marketing, support, as well as the programming. Having the source code for the database would just be one more thing that I would be looking at and tweaking and delaying the release of the product..... but on just something that is for your own use it could be fun to look over how they are doing the database and what is behind it. Good Luck. As for some of the many free databases that are out there, I have played around with a few and some of them did not have very good ADO.NET providers at the time. They keep getting better but it's something to watch out for. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD MCTS

Thank you for the tip, but that doesn't answer my original question of how to get the StatusBar to resume updates.