Cheers Mark, that was very helpful. Thanks for your time

Unless your input is an array of strings then use cin>>tempstring otherwise use cin.getline(tempstring, MAXBUFFERSIZE, '\n'); this function takes 3 parameters, and the last one is the delimiter i.e. when to signal the function to return.

Cheers Mark, Unfortunately I feel that the code might be causing problems. I code the control as follows: void CEditableCircleCtrl::DrawControl()//called by OnDraw method { CDC *pDC = GetDC(); if(pDC == NULL) { return; } CRect circlerect; //draw the round rectangle circlerect.top = 0; circlerect.left = 0; circlerect.bottom = 40; circlerect.right = 40; pDC->Ellipse(circlerect); } ... int CEditableCircleCtrl::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct) { if (COleControl::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1) return -1; //create the edit box editrect.top = 13; editrect.left = 6; editrect.bottom = 28; editrect.right = 36; editctrl.Create(WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD|ES_CENTER,editrect, this, 0); return 0; } How can I get hold of the text? Am I doing something wrong? WM_CHAR doesn't capture any text entered in the control. Where would I place any of your suggestions?

I've used MFC to create a custom control: An Ellipse with an edit control inside, so it appears as a circular edit box. Problem is, I can't get the data out from the edit control whenever I type anything in. I'm using the windows message handler WM_CHAR, but I fear that that message handler is only interested in the rectangle and not the edit control. How do I get access to the edit control's data? Thanks

Hi All I'd like to know how to cancel a print job (using VB) if the user presses the CANCEL button when the print dialog shows. Any ideas? thanks in advance

assuming you've a data control data1.refresh data1.recordsource = "select * from yourdb" data1.recordset.movefirst do while not data1.recordset.eof strFirstField = data1.recordset.fields("Field1").value strSecondField = data1.recordset.fields("Field2").value data1.recordset.movenext loop

mystring = text1.text //store what they've entered in a string combo1.additem mystring //store what's in the textbox in a combo next time user uses the system they drop down the combo to find their item and don't enter text in the text box

Thanks for your advice OldWarhorse. Not much on google.

I did but the results are the same. Thanks for your advice.

I might be wrong but I think that the only way to do this is by writing a driver. Devices being connected/disconnected cause an interrupt at KERNEL level, and those addresses are out of bounds in user mode.

Thanks for your suggestion. I placed a Printing.EndDoc statement as follows: For i = 0 To List2.ListCount - 1 Step 1 Printer.Print List2.List(i) Next i Printer.EndDoc ' added and this printed both text and graphic, but on separate pages. I'm not sure how to carry out your second suggestion. MyFathersSon

Hi all, I'm trying to print out text and graphics on the same page using VB's Printer.Print For i = 0 To List2.ListCount - 1 Step 1 Printer.Print List2.List(i) Next i If Clipboard.GetFormat(vbCFBitmap) Then Printer.PaintPicture Clipboard.GetData(), 0, 0 Printer.EndDoc End If The graphics gets printed out, but the text from the list box doesn't. Any ideas on how I can resolve this? Thanks MyFathersSon