The leading underscore is put there by the compiler and the actual value should be found in the Dsound3d.lib file. If you do not have that (and its corresponding DLL) on your system then you need to get a copy of Directx8 libraries; some more info here[^]. d@nish[^] has the answer.

Good ol' MSDN. God's gift to consultants. :laugh: BTW, Petzold was how I learned Win32 too. If you get tired of dealing with all that wndproc stuff, check out MFC; it's a very thin wrapper over Win32, and makes a lot of things easier. Good luck. :thumbsup: Best wishes, Hans [Hans Dietrich Software]

Thanks guyee. Problem solved!

Thank you once again Dave. I used the wrong terminology. I do actually want the application to start when the user logs on. You see so many programs today with preference options such as for example "Start Skype when windows starts", that I fell into the trap of using the same sloppy terminology. With your explanation of how this will behave, I can finish off my app. Cheers again Paul

I think you hit the nail on the head there! Thanks! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Thanks Dave! I Googled your suggestion and it was a bit of a revelation! Someone needs to find the button marked PURGE on that "little black box with the flashing red light" that is the internet. I've obviously only been mucking about with SqlCe for a week or so, and as a noob most of my searches for tutorials etc seem to have come up with the old dinosaur methods, so I assumed that's how it's done. Parameterization is SO much cleaner and useable! Cheers again. Paul

Thanks everyone for your help. Using Dave Kreskowiak's and Luc Pattyn's suggestions for looking at other ListView events, with daveauld's suggestion for simplifying the code, I've gone from my bloat-code which didn't work, to the following elegant-code which does. Public Class MyForm Private Sub UserHasClickedForm() Handles Me.Click, MyLabel.Click, MyListView.MouseDown, MyListView.ColumnClick, MyButton.Click MyLabel.Text="Clicked" End Sub End Class - The MouseDown event is raised if you click in a blank area or Item of the ListView control, but not if you click on a column header if the View property of the ListView is set to Details. - The ColumnClick event is required to handle clicks on the column headers. Thanks again. Paul

As Julie Andrews sang "By George he's got it!" That's what I think is happening. Regards David R

Thanks for your comments. It got me thinking about my whole approach. :) With a little more reading I realised what I'm actually trying to do is create a User Control. I can stick all the controls I want in it, and handle events from the "sender". Problem is now solved and working fine. :-D