Hi everybody, I am busy writing an setup program for my application. I am using some shell functions like SHGetSpecialFolderLocation to get Program files location. The problem is that this function requires a specific version of a shell dll to be present on the system. What do I do if I install the app on a older system like NT or 98 and the version of the system dll is old ? Is there a set of redistributable shell objects that will ensure the application work on all environments or is there another solution to this problem ? Help appreciated. Regards Ramsus Carpe Deum

Hi everyone, I am busy creating a little setup project and run into a problem when compiling the debug version into a release version. (LNK4098 linker warning) My question is what is the difference between Single-threaded and Multithreaded CRT options in the compiler and when do I choose which one ? (My project do spawn a second thread apart from the main running thread.) Regards Ramsus Carpe Deum

Hi everyone, I have a main window with a gradient background onto which client area I output text using DrawTextEx. The background of the rectangle of the drawtext function is set to transparent. I invalidate this rectangle everytime I change the text so that the new text will be visible on the gradient background. This works fine for a while and then suddenly windows seems to stop painting the window all together ....? The text still continiues to be outputed , but on a white rectangle background now. The window does not seem to repaint either. I am using straight WIN32 api and simple message handling. Anybody have any ideas ? This is driving up the walls... help will be much appreciated. Carpe Deum