Thats really a good idea. Try to have articles and links about starting in C++ programming, becasue imho thats the million $ question many newbies have. All the best Sam Ganesh Ramaswamy

I put it in my CP sig my Email sig, my Ng's sig, and then post it in heaps of forums, etc - normally Answering questions, but sometimes asking them. It should be: I put it in my CP sig, my Email sig, my Ng's sig, and then post it in heaps of forums, etc - normally Answering questions, but sometimes asking them. You forgot a comma after CP sig. ;P There is a difference in knowing the path and walking the path.

I saw it on another machine I was using for a couple of days. That machine had only the minimum SDK Installed. On my primary development machine I have a lot more of the Platform SDK installed, and it works fine. :-) Hmmm, seems like it's possible to unselect some parts of the Platform SDK, which makes it impossible to compile ATL :-( The bad thing is that I don't know what part it is.... - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

You're right. This scope thingy is related to braces and has nothing to do with TRY-CATCH. You can get similar error with the following code: { int n = 0; } n = 5; Hope this helps. // Fazlul Get RadVC today! Play RAD in VC++ http://www.capitolsoft.com

Just wanted to give everyone a blanket THANKS. I finally am getting a good grasp of everything that is being said about pointers. I thought I had a good grasp before, but that creating a structure and then deleting it in another function kind of killed me :-) But thanks to all for being patient and taking the time to help me understand this one concept better. Sam C ---- Systems Manager Hospitality Marketing Associates

I give up. VB is definitely better. :rolleyes: I vote pro drink :beer:

Oh a VB control, I'll take a look at ImgSource then :-) It took me a long time to totally ween myself away from VB development. Chris, let me say that if your responses here are any indication of the type of support your provide, and your pricing is that good, you may find yourself having a new customer before the end of the day :-) But first I'm going to try it out and see if I can remeber how to make all the extern calls to DLL functions or is that LoadLib and GetProcessEntryPoint to return function pointers?? Oh, well I'll figure it out and I see that you do offer samples with the download :-) Thanks again Chris for all your help, now I'm going to download and evaluate the library. Sam C ---- Systems Manager Hospitality Marketing Associates

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Thanks I'll give this one a try too :-) Sam C ---- Systems Manager Hospitality Marketing Associates

I am, in fact, old. I'm so old, that I yelled "Everybody duck!" just before a big-ass meteorite hit the earth. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs weren't listening.

I'm looking forward to seeing it started! I'd be happy to join in :D Cheers, Paolo.

The above shouldn't say break, should of said ASSERTION in big bold letters :-) If anyone even has a guess to why this is happening or can explain to me why ActiveX controls aren't universal please do. Thanks. Sam C ---- Systems Manager Hospitality Marketing Associates

Actually, it's from 'Through the Looking Glass.' The second 'wonderland' story, and as far as I know, the scene is not played out in the movie versions that I know about. If you haven't read Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass I recommend them highly. In terms of the discussion at hand. I agree with the idea that time and effort spent on keying software is wasted time. A simple registration to keep honest people honest is probably the best you can do. If pirates want to crack your code they will.

I use VB for prototyping and for quick and dirty apps. I would never release a commercial app written in VB for a number of reasons, some of them are valid, some ego. 1) I can tell a VB app just by looking at it. For some reason, it just "feels" different to me, and has some kind of subtle feel to it, this gives me an unconscious negative feeling about the app. I know other programmers probably have the same feeling as well - Chalk it up ot ego I suppose. The reason that it feels different is probably due to the lack of skill of most VB designers, and the ease of which you can design things. Therefore newbie designers tend to make interfaces more complicated because it's not that much work. In VC, a complex interface is more work and you have an incentive to make it simpler. 2) VB is difficult to scale into larger apps. VB doesn't provide a good code management system, and the interface encourages putting code into the UI versus writing business logic. Note that I said "encourages" not "forces". I think it requires a lot more self-discipline as a programmer to create "good" VB code than it does in VC simply by nature of the UI. So, for me, VC takes less effort for large scale projects than VB does, this translates into faster development cycles and is a very real reason for me to not use it. 3) VB *CAN* be used to write commercial quality apps, but most people take the easy route and use data controls and other simple mechanisms which provide a very generic look and feel. I like my apps to have a unique look to them, and go out of my way to make them asthetically pleasing. The more asthetically pleasing it is, the less strain the user will have in using it. I can do this much easier in VC than in VB. VB's "easy" stuff also locks you into a more generic look.