RobJones wrote: other method of connecting to the registry It needs the remote registry service, which is normally active. Just in case you don't know where to look if it fails :-)

RobJones wrote: I have 2 threads that are pulling different portions of the data set. How about passing the thread an iterator pair (i.e. a range[^]) it can operate on. Just need to make sure the thread alters data in place and doesn't modify (i.e. add or delete elements) the vector. Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p

Perfect. Thank you! Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

Good idea, I was thinking about that earlier, but for some reason I thought you needed to assign a drive letter (which i didn't want to do) but i see now that you don't. Thanks, Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

Makes me wonder if it's a name-resolution issue. Do you have a problem using gethostbyname()? In other words, can you use this function to resolve a host name to its IP address? "The largest fire starts but with the smallest spark." - David Crow "Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb

I was able to get a patch from Microsoft and it did fix the pdfshell issues. Thanks for all your help! Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door! "5 out of 4 people have problems with fractions." - Albert Einstein

After doing alot of research on the net I found that quite a few others are having the same issues and everyone suggested to use GetOpenFileName instead... I have implemented that and everything seems to be working fine. Thanks for all the suggestions! Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

You're welcome :) Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

Worked like a charm!!! Thanks, that is much cleaner! Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

RobJones wrote: Any ideas? Yes. See the VIEWEX example on MSDN. "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli

Yeah I'll have to set it up that way... I guess I was just wondering if it was possible to set the lvi to a checked state before inserting it into the control. Guess not. Thanks for your help! Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

Thank you this is exactly what I was looking for. I need to brush up on templates and STL :) Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

Thanks for all your suggestions.. I'm going to switch to CStdioFile instead and im going to look up scanf.. Thanks again, Rob Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

Redirecting an arbitrary Console's Input/Output[^]

I just figured it out.. Incase anyone else runs into this.... Inside OnInitialUpdate() // Turn on the horizontal scroll bar m_nWordWrap = WrapNone; WrapChanged(); Inside PreCreateWindow cs.style += ES_MULTILINE | WS_VSCROLL | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_LEFT | ES_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_HSCROLL; Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!

To store: CFileStatus stat; CFile::GetStatus("file", stat); CFile file("attr.out", CFile::modeWrite); file.Write(&(stat.rStatus), sizeof(stat.rStatus)); file.Close(); To load: CFileStatus stat; CFile file("attr.out", CFile::modeRead); file.Read(&(stat.rStatus), sizeof(stat.rStatus)); file.Close(); CFile::SetStatus("file", stat); "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow

Damn I knew it would be easy.. LOL Thanks! Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!