I was actually using the splash class wrongly and putting a line of code in the wrong place (doh), thanks for the help though, Nick :)

yep just found it, cheers anyway :) Nick

ON_UPDATE_CMD_UI handler is called whenever user opens the menu. You have to check the state of the program and pass correct value to CCmdUI::SetCheck. Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

Ok, thanks, I suppose I can get around it by altering the bitmap itself to have a white border or something, I'll work on that. The reason I wanted to do it was because some of the bitmaps I was drawing had a grey edge on some sides which was the same colour as the button itself so the border wasn't showing. Thanks anyway, Nick

This is exactly what I'm doing, but in WM_COMMAND all WPARAM wp ever is is 0x0000FFFF any ideas why? I set it to #define BTN_ONE 301 Thanks

If you have BMP files, you may use LoadImage() to load the bitmaps from file. Paolo ------ "airplane is cool, but space shuttle is even better" (J. Kaczorowski)

Have you implemented the virtual function 'Serialize' in your grid class? To make your grid class reusable, put IMPLEMENT_SERIAL(Grid,CObject,1) in your grid.cpp istead. In your doc class' Serialize call: m_mygrid.Serialize(ar); In your grid class Serialize you need to store and load all grid information. /Niklas

An option I have used is using IPicture. It has a Render method that takes dc to draw the image onto. You can use gif, jpg, bmp, etc. Look in MSDN "How To Load and Display Graphics Files w/LOADPIC.EXE Q218972".

The pScrollBar is null if the scrollbar is not a control but belongs to a window. Simply use the CWnd::GetScrollPos member function. void CMainFrame::SomeFunc() { ... int pos = GetScrollPos(SB_VERT); ... } Oliver