i think i figured it out. the following serves my purposes: SELECT barcode, wellname, well.ph, proteinname, score, MAX(time) AS time FROM well INNER JOIN welldrop ON well.wellkey=welldrop.wellkey INNER JOIN imageset ON welldrop.dropkey=imageset.dropkey WHERE well.barcode=1111 GROUP BY barcode,wellname

I was under the impression that he wanted to know where the mouse cursor was when the click process began (i.e. when the button was depressed). Checking Control.MousePosition is good if he wants to know the cursor position after the mouse button is released (MouseDown + MouseUp = Click). I suppose he didn't state either one specifically. Cheers, Josh

No. Hit test in your Click handler to see if the cursor is in the region. Josh

VS 2005 has a new control called "TableLayoutPanel". You may want to try this before writing your own rectangles. The panel certainly supports click events. Check this CP article[^]. Best, Jun

reshsilk wrote: Do you know of any other way to force the panel to redraw? You are principally doing this right. Put somethin like a Console.WriteLine statement into your drawing code to really check if your Panel gets painted multiple times (which I don`t think seeing your code). Like already stated the Panel might not only redraw when you call Invalidate but for example also whenever you move a window on top of your app.

Sorry! I wasn't sure where to put that one... RC

You can probably look here -> [TextRenderer.MeasureText] It's new to the .NET 2.0 framework according to MSDN website. There are examples in VB and C# about 3/4 of the way down the page. Hope this gets you off in the right direction. Mike Poz

Hi Alexander, The invalidate method worked! Thanks for your help!! RC

i am using it in the webpage is that ok can you please suggest me as soon as possible

1.1 has Double.TryParse(). If that's not good enough, this is the fastest way to determine if a string contains an integer, and it can easily be adapted to work for any other type of numeric: bool TryParseInt(string value) { for (int i = 0; i < value.Length; i++) { if (i == 0 && value[i] == '-') continue; if (!Char.IsNumber(value[i])) return false; } return value.Length < Int32.MaxValue.ToString().Length; }

Find something like that in Windows Form Designer generated code section. this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(30, 373); But even if you comment this code, designer'll generate it again. It'd be better to override OnLoad methods, where set the size of the form.

It may be that you are putting your programmatical assignment of the size before the InitialiseComponent() method in the form's constructor is being called, as a result the assignment to the form's size in InitialiseComponent() is overriding your assignment. James just-code-it.net

have you tried putting the sizing in the forms constructor: this.Height = 600 ; this.Width = 800 ; Also, you could create an override for the forms OnResize event, like this; protected override void OnResize(EventArgs e) { base.OnResize (e); this.Width = 800 ; this.Height = 600 ; }

IIRC you need to set the FormStartupPosition property to Manual. You need to set both the Location and Size in parent coords.** xacc.ide-0.1.3.14 - Now with syntax support for PowerShell xacc.ide-0.1.3.13 source code **

that did the trick. thank you!