There was an app on the Amiga that'd do that (it gave you a single application that you could set as the default app to open any file type, it'd analyze the file then open the appropriate viewer) - I can't remember its name though :( It worked by having a definition entry for each file type to be handled. E.g. a Windows Bitmap file could be described as having the extension .bmp and its binary data starting with the chars "BM" basically it let you define regular expressions on extension / bytes at a given address / bytes searched for / file size and an assortment of other file attributes, and seemed to be very good at picking up the correct file type for anything -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

The fact that there is no way to set an item's RECT and that ListViews only supports LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED leads me to believe that you are, unfortunately, out of luck... Unless, you only have one column in the ListView in question, then might I recommend moving to a ListBox instead... its WM_MEASUREITEM suffers the same problem ( only ever getting called once ), but you can set an items RECT at runtime ( like when the user clicks on it ). void CMyZoomListBox::OnSelchange() { if ( -1 != m_nLastSelection ) { SetItemHeight ( m\_nLastSelection, m\_nNormalSize ); } m\_nLastSelection = GetCurSel (); SetItemHeight ( m\_nLastSelection, m\_nZoomSize ); Invalidate (); // update window to reflect size changes } Ben Burnett --------- On the topic of code with no error handling -- It's not poor coding, it's "optimistic" ;)

I think you have to handle the WM_MEASUREITEM message, but the height you set will affect all the rows, because the ListView control uses a LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style (fixed height). Paolo ------ "airplane is cool, but space shuttle is even better" (J. Kaczorowski)

Of course unsigned char can hold 255, but to terminate this loop you need 256, look again on condition: ch<=255; Do you feel that you still good? :)

Looks brilliant, but the screensaver does not start on my system, anyone else have any problems? System : p3/450, 192mb, win2ksp2, dx8 I've tried their troubleshooting forum, but it seems to be down at the moment... Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Won't forget that in a hurry-it works, thanx Mike. I did try (char*)[10] - this didn't work, though I thought that was intuitive :) Looks like the right to left rule of reading declarations might come in handy even in areas such as this! Cheers, Shanker.

If you have sprinklers in your yard, you can place the coaster over the riser, but underneath the sprinkler head. The spread of the CD-ROM would prevent the grass from growing too close to the sprinkler head. You probably need to enlarge the CD-ROM hole, though, to fit over the riser. If the CD-ROM is placed with the silver side up, and the sun is shining while the sprinkler is spraying, you might get a neato rainbow effect from each sprinkler out in your yard. Could be kind of cool :eek: C++/MFC/InstallShield since 1993

i always use the CreatFile() ... ReadFile() ... stuff to read the file in as raw data and then convert to unicode (cast a pointer to it as a _TCHAR*) works for me :) --- "every year we invent better idiot proof systems and every year they invent better idiots"

I'd like to think that another purpose of this group would be to help each other learn new things. Of course not everyone knows everything about everything, so this would be a great learning experience for all of us. :) Frank

Here's a few more suggestions. 1. Something (?) using ADSI. I know...kind of vague. 2. Port a unix (linux) tool. Pick your favorite. :) 3. An ASP script editor. 4. A tool that takes advantage of WMI using COM+ 5. A distributed computing project? 6. A simple project management application. Ex: TODO list, Bug lists, feature request database. Perhaps, a plugin to the VC ide to integrate it. I'll try to think up some more. Cheers, Frank

>cvs is kinda like "rcs" on Unix/Linux, yes? Except that is supports concurent development. That means that no locks are necessary, and many peoples can work on the same files at the same time, then CVS merges the things... >I hope we can get a nice user-friendly UI to go with it... WinCvs: www.wincvs.org CVS has a good solutions for internet development. In fact WinCvs itself is developed that way as well as CVS of course...