That was interesting. I had a quick look around, but could only find information that this was a problem in Windows NT. Regarding reentrant code, I don't think the OP's reason was thread safety. Just to prevent a task switch. home

Thanks Dave, I ended up finding this link as well. Shay

Shay Harel wrote: I did not know the Async socket rely on the message pump It does by default.  You can, however, override everything you need to make it use events instead of window messages.  You don't get the virtual OnConnect(), OnReceive(), etc calls, however, since you'd have to provide your own thread.  At some point it ends up being easier to use Winsock APIs directly IMO :) Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

When you open the device, you need to specify that you will be doing overlapped I/O. Then, when calling DeviceIoControl, use the overlapped parameter. Judy

excellent ! that did the trick, Thanks a lot

I've modified it. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.

that did the trick

Shay Harel wrote: Let's say I want to select the last argument from a command and copy and paste it somewhere, I just can't do that in a list control since it let me select the whole line only. Of course that is what it's made for. What about a simple multiline edit control with. Which is more handy than a list control. There are applications that do that. Make this edit box a readonly one. After every command you can add new line. :) This will help the user in selecting any line or any word or any character. Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^]  My site[^]

thr first one was just an autocomplete, the second one was better. thanks

Why couldn't I think about it before :) BTW, I am using VS 2003 and it also need the Tick Marks property checked. Thanks !

Shay Harel wrote: typedef void (__stdcall *PF_SPCMCOMM_CALLBACK)(char *,pack_data *); Shay Harel wrote: static void __cdecl SpcmCallBack (char *payload,pack_data *pd); These two must have the same calling convention - __stdcall and __cdecl are not compatible. Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

Thx, I figured out is would be something that "sniffed" the hardware buffers. Shay

Try looking at this series of articles. They are very good and if I recall properly, they have they answer to your problem. http://www.codeproject.com/shell/shellextguide1.asp[^]

I already did the work manually but thanks a lot for the info. This had happen more than once so next time I will try this trick. shay

Well, you set it from the Image menu, I just found out. Thanks.

Also, you could be seriously jacking up your window position, if it is already positioned near the upper left corner with only a little bit of the lower right corner showing. I strongly recommend something like: this->SetWindowPos( &CWnd::wndTopMost,10,10, Rect.right - Rect.left, // its width Rect.bottom - Rect.Top, // its height SWP_SHOWWINDOW); Or even this->SetWindowPos( &CWnd::wndTopMost,10,10, max(Rect.right - Rect.left, 100), // its width max(Rect.bottom - Rect.Top, 100), // its height SWP_SHOWWINDOW); If you are REALLY paranoid, like me :omg:

I recommend the brute force approach. Since you want to put a bitmap on the button, why not simply include the text you want in the bitmap? (i.e. your bitmap has the text "Open" with the small folder picture next to it.)

yes, this is a "memory leak" 101 thing. I was looking for something that will do that for me and have some reporting instead of me having to look at it all the time.