Surely you're thinking of Shog[9]... :rolleyes: A servant to formulaic ways. Shog9

Rohde wrote: Do you know whether the new XAML mode of UI programming will be part of Whidbey, From what I've read, XAML is a Longhorn only technology. A shame but understandable. I am currently working on my own XML UI defintion system... it would have been nice if Microsoft had done the work for me ;-) For details on Whidbey have a read of the roadmap. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx[^] Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space

Thanks Roger. :) Maybe he was talking about the drop down menus, or maybe he's got some kind of adware on his PC, as you say. But my site sure has got no popups. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Waiter ! More ice ! :laugh: The tigress is here :-D

Hey Steve, With your help I finally got this damn thing to work :-D Since the CDialogBar class (the one that was created in the OnCreate method of the CMainFrame class) was getting my messages I replaced it with a class of my own derived from CDialogBar and added my message map and eventsink map and it works now. Here's an even harder question: why in the hell did microsoft make me jump through that many hoops just to use a bloody activeX control in a toolbar? Isn't there an easier way? thanks, -Oinka Microsft Sucks!

thanks for your help!

Oinka wrote: Why do I have to include the doc class declaration in order to use the view class? Shouldn't the view class header just include everything it needs for itself? The CView derived class has a GetDocument function. I assume there is some MFC design reason why the include file or forward declaration isn't generated by the AppWizard. (Or it could be an oversight by the MFC team not realising how developers were going to structure their code) Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space