Neha wrote: Could any one please tell me where I am going wrong? If you use SHGetDesktopFolder(&lpShellFolder) and are getting the desired results, what's the problem? "When I was born I was so surprised that I didn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

In other words, you can't meaningfully serialize a HANDLE, because when you read it back in (presumably in a different process) that HANDLE value won't be meaningful.

The wording of you question needs work, but here is what you need. SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT); (the text is drawn without drawing background). If you need to be able to move the text around via draging then you will have to create a compatible bitmap of the appropriate size and draw the text on it then drag the bitmap around on top of whatever bitmap you are placing it on. In which case you will need to use the functions: GetTextExtent (to determine the size of the bitmap to create before drawing to it) and TransparentBlt (NT/Windows 2000) or some other method for drawing doing transparent blits. An example of one way to do transparent blits is in the code provided in CDibData and another in the MSDN library. Good luck! INTP

Just remove line #include "y.h" from X.h file it should work greatest thing is to do wot others think you cant suhredayan@omniquad.com> messenger :suhredayan@hotmail.com

THis is the way I do it: // now render the icon int xSize = (pDC->GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSX) \* 16) / 96; // a screen display gives us 96dpi, scale the same for device(s) int ySize = (pDC->GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSY) \* 16) / 96; ::DrawIconEx(pDC->m\_hDC, x - (xSize / 2), y - (ySize / 2), m\_pTemplate->GetIcon(), xSize, ySize, 0, NULL, DI\_IMAGE | DI\_MASK); This will scale correctly for a preview and a print. although I have seen problems on some printers etc which do not use the mask correctly :( Roger Allen - Sonork 100.10016 Strong Sad: Clever I am? Next to no one. Undiscovered and soggy. Look up. Look down. They're around. Probably laughing. Still, bright, watery. Listed among the top. Ten. Nine. Late night. Early morn. Early mourn. Now I sleep.

OnInitialUpdate is not called by you i suppose. It is called automatically when you create the Formview using create. MSN Messenger. prakashnadar@msn.com

Neha wrote: OpenDocument(the_File); Have you put a breakpoint on this statement to see the value of the_File? "The pointy end goes in the other man." - Antonio Banderas (Zorro, 1998)

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Thanks for the reply.. But I want to implement it in the same way as the explorer does. That is if I say select any file and say copy it should copy the file to clipbord and I should be able to paste it anywhere.

in .h file class A : public CObject { public: DECLARE_SERIAL( A ) // empty constructor is necessary A(){}; void Serialize( CArchive& archive ); }; in .cpp file IMPLEMENT_SERIAL( A, CObject, 1 ) void A::Serialize( CArchive& archive ) { // call base class function first // base class is CObject in this case CObject::Serialize( archive ); // now do the stuff for our specific class if( archive.IsStoring() ) ///serialize it else //deserialise it } Hope this code help you , for further reading MSDN has good explanation for serialization. 1.Why do people not wearing a wrist watch look at their wrist for time when people ask for time. 2.Why do people ask for time from people who are not wearing a wrist watch. Prakash, India.

Hi, I was thinking to do the same. Please, if you do any code for it, even not perfect, can you send it to me ( if yes I will give you my email address ) ? If I will implement on my side I can give my code to you. Unfortuantely though, I am using the VCF library ( which makes this work much simpler than using MFC ), so I am not sure my code will fit your needs. Cheers, Marcello

Neha wrote: error C2065: 'DDX_Time' : undeclared identifier DDX_Time isn't part of the standard MFC DDX. It may be a custom type, have you included the correct header files. MSDN refers to DDX_Time as part of the possible User extensions but doesn't give a full implementation. Michael Snow is lying on the ground, and in the air the sleigh bells sound, The frosted patterned window panes, it's British summer time again. No, it's not, It's Christmas - Santa Claus in on the Dole (Spitting Image 1986)

what i meant by enumerting the cases was that if you do not create the dialog box within if condition then the WM_DESTROY will get generated and it will destroy you dialog box. if you don't wanna use if condition to create a dialog box then you will have to allocate memory to the dialog box pointer with new opeator. i hope this solves your prob.

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Yes, I am wrong. Could you please tell me how to save the DDB data? I need to use the DDB format because DIB takes DWORD.

Write a program that doesn't do anything main() { return 0; } Now see how much memory this takes in task mgr. According to you it shud take 0 bytes!!

Are you using SSE or SSE2 by any chance? If you are, I might answer your question.

Hrm - the only problem I could see with that is that if the object that m_str is pointing to has lost scope, then m_str would not be NULL and calling delete on m_str could cause the exception... Just thought of something else...are you initializing m_str to NULL?? John Theal Physicist/Mathematical Programmer Digital Immersion Software Corporation Got CAD? http://www.presenter3d.com[^] http://www.merlin3d.com[^]