thanks, good idea.

OK guys, thanks for the comments. i agree making your own dialog box isn't so difficult although getting the format right is sometimes time consuming depending on how big the help file is. i'm all for an easy life and if there was a "one-liner" to do what i wanted then all the better. thanks anyway.

Hi All, Using Notepad is a convenient method of displaying a HELP file. Does anybody know how to control the Notepad properties once it has been invoked? i.e how can you disable menu items and the text window in VB.NET code? thanks

try this: Dim ItemClicked as MenuItem ItemClicked=Ctype(sender,menutitem) the do IF statement or Case Select

don't know if you've solved this but use debug.write("string") then look in local

Don't know if 've understoog your application but why don't you use an Imagelist to store and load images. It's easy to access and use.

To grab the text from the listbox use text=listbox.selecteditem.text then depending on what program you want to write to very simply: OpenFile(1,filename,outputmode) Writeline(1,text) FileClose(1) something like this anyway.

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Thanks for putting me out of my misery Dave. I also had the idea of generating another imagelist but was trying to do things more compactly if possible. Do you know if there is a way of extracting the index of the image file as an integer and store it as another variable? thanks

Hi All, Is it possible to move image files around an ImageList during run time after the ImageList has been populated at design time? Basically i'm looking for the code syntax for being able to sort image files (*.gif) in an ImageList. Can this be done using the "index" value of the stored images? thanks

Hello All, Does anybody have any neat code (VB.NET) to manage the "recent files" part of a main menu like in WORD. I'm using just a simple note editor and i'm going crazy over the logic although i'm sure it's simple. To start with I read in 4 files from a *.ini file and create the menuitems having declared the menu array name at form level: 'at form level Dim RecentFile(3) as MenuItem 'at frm_Load to create menuitems after reading file names/path from *.ini file ...RecentFile(3)=New MenutItem (FileString(4)) Read files then create menuitems.. mnuMain.MenuItems.Add(RecentFile(I)) Then from the Open file event using the OpenDialog box..I have Filename=dlgOpen.Filename This then passes to a subroutine to sort the recent files and delete any file that was the same as the current one. so.. FileString(1)= RecentFile 1 from last edit/open/new procedure FileString(2)= RecentFile 2 from last edit/open/new procedure FileString(3)= RecentFile 3 from last edit/open/new procedure FileString(4)= RecentFile 4 from last edit/open/new procedure I'm looking for code that puts the new Filename in the top position but also deletes any of the existing ones if they are the same as Filename. Thanks for your help.

You'll need to create a release version of the application which saves the CLR(Control Language Runtime) file to disc. This enables other users withour the .NET framework to run the program.I know VB.NET 2003 has a great Wizard for doing this so you might want to check out On-line help as it is a bit long winded to put down here.