only_jack wrote: the purpose that you having trouble to understand was the automation of some report procedures We are having trouble understanding it because you are not explaining it! Your original post mentioned nothing about automated reports, it merely said you wanted to modify an exe file by importing a bitmap resource - hence the suspicion that you were trying something illegal. Your description above still confuses me, if a program needs runtime parameters that are not compiled into its resources then why not just read some sort of parameter or config file, as does just about every commercial application in the world? MVP 2010 - are they mad?

Have also a look at CString::Tokenize method [^]. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]

thank you for your reply but the problem is not that ,i knew that and tried but it does not work because,i am creating the control from a dll , i think this is related with the message loop, but i could not find a solution to this this is a relevant link and this was not work also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187988/en-us[^] thanks

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yes of course SetWindowlong() CWnd::ModifyStyle() not working or i could not implement