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Remember, that's a GLOBAL keyboard hook, that means SYSTEM GLOBAL, not application. If the users hits that key, while your app is running, in ANY application or Explorer window, it'll fire in your application. Is that what you want it to do?? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007, 2008 But no longer in 2009...

The idea is that if you can find the HWND for the file dialog, you could replace its WinProc[^]. All messages are routed through this method. So basically, remove the old WinProc, add your own (all using SetWindowLongPtr[^]), and in your own just redirect all messages to the original, intercepting the F1 keystroke. This will get you something like the MFC PreTranslateMessage ability. home

Dear all, I've just found an answer (funny how this happens just a few minutes after I post the question). In the class derived from CDialog, I changed m_menu to: CMenu *m_menu; In OnInitDialog, I replaced the LoadMenuA statement with: m_menu = GetMenu(); It worked! Regards, Mike

Michael Adamus wrote: I want the program to show the InitInstance message Try to show the message using modelelss dialogbox, or spawn a thread from InitInstance to display the message box. Michael Adamus wrote: Furthermore, I don't want to see the "Windows cannot find 'E:\MikeA Documents\mdi41.mdi4'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search." message. This seems to be a bug within windows, it should have displayed a better error message, like for eg: "The DDE transcation failed", however if the actual issue (blocking InitInstance()) is addressed, then you might not face this one anyways. -Suhredayan

OK, thank you for your time and effort.   Hopefully, I'll be able to figure out how Spy++ works by doing my own research. Regards, Mike

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZDin4axsYoEC&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=call+managed+code+stringbuilder&source=bl&ots=x45eJ7Ns__&sig=bGDq4U5_urIqdmvfqmLmWkXgaeY&hl=en&ei=uC_mSePgLYuwMqq27YwJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA374,M1[^] Regards, Mike

The solution to get the VB6 program to compile is to use: ref double[], ref double[], ref double[], ref double[] for the parameters. Regards, Mike

I appreciate everyone's responses anyway.  I understand now that the user must have the Resource Editor open and then press Ctrl-D. Regards, Mike

I changed Form_Load as shown below: Private Sub Form_Load() HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 KEY_READ = &H20019 RegOpenKeyEx HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion", _ 0&, KEY_READ, hKey RegQueryValueEx hKey, "CommonFilesDir", 0, 0, sValue, iTemp End Sub Now, I'm getting a non-zero value for hKey, but still I'm getting nothing for sValue.  Anyone have any ideas? Regards, Mike modified on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:49:23 AM

Congratulations, Michael. Best wishes to your project. - Bio.

The problem has been solved. It turns out that I was allocating an incorrect amount of memory for three variables. To sum up, Old: double *var1 = new double[20]; Changed to: double *var1 = new double[correctInt]; Regards, Mike

My Pleasure. :) Prasad Notifier using ATL | Operator new[],delete[][^]

mla154 wrote: If it is possible, how can I get rid of this memory leak? Catch the exception and delete the CArchiveException object?

Did you see DrawText on MSDN it has one example of it:) WhiteSky

Multithreaded DLL gives me a different set of linker errors: --------------------Configuration: Icdm - Win32 Release Windows 95-------------------- Linking... nafxcw.lib(apphelp.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __mbctype nafxcw.lib(timecore.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __mbctype nafxcw.lib(dcprev.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __mbctype nafxcw.lib(filelist.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __mbctype nafxcw.lib(appcore.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___argv nafxcw.lib(appcore.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___argc D:\code\Visual C++ Projects\!Work\ICDM - Mike L\HC-Release\Icdm.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals Error executing link.exe. Icdm.exe - 7 error(s), 0 warning(s)

It worked! Thanks for your help. Mike

I tried the following: BOOL CMyFormView::PutDataToClipboard(CBitmap *pBmp) { COleDataSource *pods = new COleDataSource;; HBITMAP hBmp = (HBITMAP) *pBmp; int i = sizeof(*pBmp); HANDLE hData = ::GlobalAlloc(GMEM_FIXED, sizeof(*pBmp)); CBitmap* pData = (CBitmap*) ::GlobalLock (hData); pData = pBmp; BOOL l = ::GlobalUnlock(hData); STGMEDIUM stg; stg.tymed = TYMED_GDI; stg.hBitmap = hBmp; stg.pUnkForRelease = NULL; // Place the data object on the OLE clipboard. CFormApp* ab = (CFormApp*)AfxGetApp(); pods->CacheData(CF_BITMAP, &stg); pods->SetClipboard(); //ab->pods->CacheData (CF_BITMAP, &stg); //ab->pods->SetClipboard (); delete pods; return TRUE; } I'm unable to paste the bitmap in mspaint (and other places). Any ideas? -- modified at 15:20 Tuesday 29th August, 2006