ah well, I thought I could find a way around the problem but you pretty much confirmed what I was thinking. thanks,

Returning FALSE from a DDX method means that the data exchange method failed such that the rest of the data exchange process should be cancelled. You need to return TRUE from your DDX_CBString method unless (for example) validation of the item fails.

Yes, basically if you use C string functions, you'll get a warning. Beyond that, I see no compelling reason to change, there are some breaking changes for standards, but all reasonably obscure. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

You could use remoting for this. There's a good example on single instance applications on MSDN: Real World Applications Sample, Part 1[^] There are a few little bugs in there and it's written for .NET 1.0 IIRC (so some channel security settings have to be changed for 1.1), but altogether it's working nicely. Regards, mav

thats a very good idea, thanks! I have always just automatically given them both the same version numbers, without actually thinking about why there are two different fields.

Hi Paul, I wrote a class called bimap which seems to me is exactly what you're looking for. Check it out here[^] (Caveat, it does not work for MSVC 7.1.) The original idea of bimap, namely to maintain several access orders over the same set of elements, has been much expanded in a Boost library called Boost.MultiIndex[^]. A bidirectional map is just a particular case of what can be achieved with Boost.MultiIndex (though the syntax is not as terse as in bimap.) Boost.MultiIndex works for MSVC 7.1 and is generally much more powerful, so I'd recommend going for this. Joaquín M López Muñoz Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo Want a Boost forum in Code Project? Vote here[^]!

Technically, decimal means base-10 (deca is Greek for ten). So, rather than using a float type, are you wanting to use an int type? If you simply need more precision, you might try the DECIMAL type. However, I suspect you are not having precision problems. Most beginners assume you can compare floating-point numbers just like you can non floating-point numbers. For example, this would never produce the desired result: float a = 0.1; if (a == 0.1) ... because a is stored internally as 0.0999999999, give or take a few 9s. "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion of me. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow

I think in your resource.h there is a counter of different controls. You have to set it up by one. (This very maybe could be your problem.) the counters are round about the last lines of the file. good luck. "If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... and don't be late." ~ Jimi Hendrix

Yes, there's an article regarding this here on codeproject. please search. #include "witty_sig.h"

Thanks for your kind words. :) Real soon now, I will be ending a java project (at least my involvement in it), and go straight back to C++. I can't wait. ;) I have a bunch of header files with code for dealing with composition. With a bit of luck, I'll see if I can gather enough strength and will to write an article about it later on. Sure, there's always boost, but I figure I can show the concepts of functional composition if I used my own code. I think just the awareness of these tricks makes STL a lot easier and more enjoyable to work with. -- Booohoo!

Rebuild your project or solution. This will clean intermediate files and rebuild the entire project or solution. Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

Never mind I found the problem... it does actually work using "&&" in the string if you use a standard button control, but the custom button control I am using apparently is not handling the & correctly. thanks anyway.

Make your child dialog as modeless and then add the following codes in your child dialog initDialog handler CRect rect; // get the current window size and position GetWindowRect( rect ); // now change the size, position, and Z order // of the window. ::SetWindowPos( m\_hWnd , // handle to window HWND\_TOPMOST, // placement-order handle rect.left, // horizontal position rect.top, // vertical position rect.Width(), // width rect.Height(), // height SWP\_SHOWWINDOW // window-positioning options ); It basically set your child windows on top most in the z-order of the windows. Hope this helps. Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio

Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Just override OnMove() and OnSize(). that would require having access to the source code of the app I want to launch, which i don't. thanks anyway

msvcp60 contains classes such as basic_filebuf, basic_ios, etc. that start with the word basic_ (those are the ones I recognize at least). Those are not the only things in the dll, there are a lot more functions and classes. Try to use dumpbin /exports to see all the functions that are being exported. I just had another idea. Remove msvcprt.lib (that's the library I believe) from the linker's options and you will get a bunch of errors telling you that you have external dependencies missing. That way you will be able to see what functions in the source code are linked to msvcp60.dll. I hope that makes sense.:) // Afterall, I realized that even my comment lines have bugs When one cannot invent, one must at least improve (in bed).-My latest fortune cookie

Yes, I notice that the VC6 dump tells you which object caused the leak and VC7 doesn't :( _CrtSetDbgFlag doesn't make any difference.