I'm 70. I use a theme (I think it is 2008-DesertNights.vssettings) in Visual Studio which has light (near white) text on a dark (near black) background. I modified the font to a larger font - 14pt Bitstream Vera Sans Mono - and this is much easier to read and less tiring than the default small font and black on white. Incidentally I use multi-focal specs for everything (I'm shortsighted) and don't have too much of a problem. Sure you do have to adapt to viewing things through the appropriate part of the lens for the distance but this only takes a few days with a new pair of spectacles. A recent visit to the eye surgeon showed that my eyesight has not changed in 3 years. Oh - and my left eye only has about 70% of the vision of the right one due to some retinal laser repair of burst blood vessels.

IBM 1620 Assembler - now that was a long time ago!

Hi Jim, I previously posted this as a response to someone else - sorry - should have replied directly to you. Why not make it a bit more interesting and have a look at Alice? (http://www.alice.org/[^])

Why not make it a bit more interesting and have a look at Alice? (http://www.alice.org/[^])

Hi I made sure that my project .pch file was gone and tried again without success. However there is a second project in the solution (on which my project is dependent). When I made sure the second project's .pch file was deleted it solved the issue. So your suggestion was spot on - thanks :) Now all I have to do is go through and correct all of the 'real' errors caused by previous developers not using the transmutable macros etc :( Thanks again.

Hi I'm converting an existing C++ MFC project in VS2008 to Unicode. The project had previously been upgraded to VS2008 from VS2005 and is running successfully as MBCS built by VS2008. I have also successfully tested a small (new) MFC Unicode app in C++. I set the Project Properties to "Use Unicode ..." instead of MBCS and did a rebuild. UNICODE and _UNICODE are defined in the Preprocessor directives due to 'Use Unicode ...' in the project properties. When I build I get a lot of errors related to the definition of szFaceName in CHARFORMAT2. The errors are related to the definition of CHARFORMAT szFaceName as 'char' rather than WCHAR. Looking at the definition of CHARFORMAT2 in Richedit.h it has: #ifdef UNICODE #define CHARFORMAT2 CHARFORMAT2W #else #define CHARFORMAT2 CHARFORMAT2A #endif and the CHARFORMAT2A line is the one highlighted - effectively saying that UNICODE is NOT defined. I am at a loss to understand why UNICODE is undefined in Richedit.h and how to fix it. I have tried defining UNICODE and _UNICODE in stdafx.h without any success. I'd be grateful for any help with this - its driving me crackers. Thanks in anticipation :)