When I want to step into a service, I use the task manager. Select the service .exe and click Debug from the context menu. Hope this helps, Bill

http://www.klangwerker.de/developer/ Ps! This is probably the most ugly website ever made :) But the content is good beginner stuff. Jimmy Hoffa

The reason is byte packing. The i386 and later processors can access memory that is aligned or unaligned to specific boundaries. For byte size operations, any address is as good as another (not quite true, but its handled inside the processor). For word size (16 bit) operations, accesses are faster on 16 bit aligned addresses (every 2 bytes). For DWORD and pointer size operations, accesses are faster on 32 bit aligned addresses (every 4 bytes). Since your structure has a 4 byte sized object (the unsigned int) following the char it has been aligned to the next optimal address. If you really don't like this you can instruct the compiler how you want it to behave using the #pragma pack directive. Stephen Kellett

Thanks for the thanks :-O Let me know how the project turns out. :-D There are three types of people in this world, those who can do arithmetic and those who can't.

Usually programmers are not good artists. :) Try looking here: http://www.fli7e.de/ He does Winamp skins -- that's a UI. Quite good, too. If he won't, you *might* find someone on this ring who would be interested, and you can look at their work first. Regards, Daniel

Turn off those two style bits - WS_BORDER and WS_CAPTION. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so.

I have used the MSVC profiler for release builds many times. I don't think the code optimization makes any difference at all in this matter. A couple of considerations come to mind though: 1. Make sure you turn OFF incremental linking (Visual should do this automatically) 2. Select "Line numbers only" in the Debug Info section (under C/C++ Project Settings). At work we had a problem where the profiler menu option (under the build menu) was disabled. This is a known bug in Visual Studio! You can find information about it at the MSDN site: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q224/3/82.ASP Hope this helps ;) Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue.

There's a difference in c1.exe (c-one) and cl.exe (c-el). Maybe you've made a typo while specifying the linker? -- Alex Marbus

Look at the PERFMON example included with the MSDN

Now I found another way to implement a timer by using this functions CreateWaitableTimer() OpenWaitableTimer() SetWaitableTimer() and so on ... I read the resolution is about 100ns. Is that true ? In a demo-app for this kind of timer they used a while(true) loop to await a timer-message. Is this the only way to handle this timer ? And what about deadlocks ? Greatings Mario /// -------------------- www.klangwerker.de rocknix@lycos.de --------------------

I`m trying to implement a class that simulates a LCD-display --- during constructor call i need several pens with different colors to draw a scolled-frame around the rect of the display. That function works but create,reselect and delete pens takes a lot of time and my member-function is not the fastest. What i want is getting one pen in a loop - change the pen-color during every loop-cycle and put a new frame-rect around the previous one. Greatings Mario P.S.: I don`t use MFC ! -------------------- www.klangwerker.de rocknix@lycos.de --------------------