That seems to be the DNS hostname for a certain IP-address. The address might be encoded in there (as mentioned in another reply, there might be 2 addresses in there. one could be the client, the other one could be the gateway, but no guarantee to that). However, you should be able to get the IP-Address by doing a DNS Lookup on that hostname. If you don't know how to do that manually, ping the hostname (enter "ping d14813f.1da97c9.dsl.bell.ca" on a command line to do that). The result should similar to this: Ping d14813f.1da97c9.dsl.bell.ca [10.11.12.13] mit 32 Bytes Daten: The address you are looking for would then be displayed inside the square brackets. Note: The address I listed there is completely made up. Even if the computer does not reply to pings, the DNS lookup should still succeed and yield the IP-address. A word of caution: If the provider of that dynamic IP-address randomly distributes the hostnames and manages its own DNS-records, the IP-Address belonging to that hostname might change, yielding misleading results. Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.

no_life wrote: The reason i want this function is so that i can double click an entry in the listctrl and have it open with the strings in edit boxes, so that you can edit them and make changes. ok..thats your problem is'nt. you can solve that in a better way like this. in your CChange , create a public member variable as m_csEditString and when you double click the list control in the parent dialog, get the currently selected String and call CChange change; change.m_csEditString = "String from parent list"; change.DoModal(); in the CChange class create a control variable for your edit control via ClassWizard let m_edit1 and in the OnInitDialog() function of your CChange class, just call m_edit1.SetWindowText(csEditString ); That will work..!! if you have anymore doubt...feel free to ask me.. I want to change Myself..Can u help me? :)

DavidCrow wrote: In your CDocument-derived class, you'll need an object (e.g., CString) to hold the (HTML) text. As you click each button, you'll update this object accordingly. After each update, you'll need to call UpdateAllViews(...) so that the view can render the text. hello, thx for the reply i will try and use this when i get the chance, it sounds a bit cloudy to me but i will have a go at it

hi, thank you very much for the info! you got me on the right track.. however when i compile i get an error that reads: error C2373: 'ShellExecuteA' : redefinition; different type modifiers i dont know if i put all of the code in the right spot, i added it all under the button function: void CShell2Dlg::OnButton1() { // TODO: Add your control notification handler code here HINSTANCE ShellExecute( HWND hwnd, LPCTSTR lpOperation, LPCTSTR lpFile, LPCTSTR lpParameters, LPCTSTR lpDirectory, INT nShowCmd ); ShellExecute(0,"open","http://www.codeproject.com","","",SW_SHOWNORMAL); } --later

eheh got it, i think my line was setbkcolor. i just searched the include files for the settextcolor line, and saw it right above. the program is set to draw one string. i tried to add another and i cant get it to draw the second one. i was thinking about having it show one little page of info. Then going through the menu or other button and having it display another string of info, kind of like a bunch of pages. any idea on how to do something like that? another thing that would be a cool addition would be a image added to the backround. i saw a ton of functions for the images in the include files and it would be a prayer if i actually found the right function for this. im gonna keep messing with it though and learn as i go. -later