Hi guys, I'm currently designing a 'Nerd Organiser', which will include all the usual functions of calendar and contacts etc, however what I want to include is the facility to list (in order and perhaps with some sort of organised review and reasoning ) your favourite things. As a nerd I am fully aware that these lists may range from my favourite novels and films to my favourite programming languages, to my favourite HTML tags to my favourite version of SQL. I'd be interested to hear anything that you would want to list. Or in fact any features you would like added to the application. The geekier the better as far as I'm concerned. ( One of the other features is a cookery instructions, viewable as pseudocode, XML or a flowchart. ) Cheers Simon.

The best assembler opcode I ever saw for a processor was on the motorola MPC-555. EIEIO, which means Enforce In Order Execution of I/O. Well I thought it was funny...

In MFC CDialog is inherited publically from CWnd and in CWnd there is a Create function that takes 7 parameters ( the last one of which has a default value ). Now surely you should be able to use this function within your derived CDialog class, but Visual C++ will not compile the code saying "error C2661: 'Create' : no overloaded function takes 7 parameters" This is not important, I'm just curious.

Yes you can use ValidateRect(NULL) surprisingly...;)

If you Invalidate() a window it will try to redraw itself at the next opportunity. Because your 'invisible' static control is hidden for a while it is automatically Invalidate()ed. So when it comes to draw it again, it still thinks it is Invalidate()ed. If you Validate() your static control rather than creating a DC from the window, it will also work. :confused:HOWEVER, why did you not just create the window without WS_VISIBLE set?