how does everyone keep up on all of the different advances in programming? There's nothing really new, it's just packaged differently. I read the articles and on-line mags to stay in touch with the capabilities, but I don't bother really learning anything in depth unless I'm personally interested in it or it looks like something my customers might benefit from. Is it as powerful as everyone seems to suggest? As a language goes, I think C++ is a lot more "powerful". C# isn't as fun as C++ because it's so dang safe. I haven't had any major complaints about the language though, except that interfaces are a poor solution to the whole issue of multiple inheritence. .NET framework is, in my opinion, a considerable improvement over MFC, although like MFC, it can sometimes really get in the way. For example, to my great annoyance, some really useful classes that wrap XML facets are sealed! God knows why, I have to implement the dang thing myself now. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator. Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

I would doubt that you are out of memory unless you have a leak. You might be over running an allocated memory region and thus trashing the memory manager. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

Sparticus wrote: As software engineers and the like, what makes C++ such an attractive language to you, and under what circumstances do you find it to be a burden? The beauty of C and C++ to me is that is is virtually a high end assembly language. There is nothing hidden, there are no areas that say "Here Be Dragons" and are walled off to the programmer. Any feature that in your opinion is missing can be added because you have access to low level primitives. In MS C++ the _asm directive is a gateway to really drop down and do what you want. The burden is the learning curve, the plethora of classes, API calls, structures that you have to keep at least aware of - and conversant in many of them. Also things like heap allocation vs stack allocation, pointers vs smart pointers, casts , the ability to pass pointers to functions,overuse of the void type, make others code sometimes hard to decipher. Richard When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life. Mark Twain- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

That is actually a very good idea...I love templates! Thanks, -Michael Anderson- 完全な円

Okay, to answer my own question . . . hRsrc = FindResource( NULL, MAKEINTRESOURCE( IDR_JPG1 ), "JPG" ); Corrects the problem

If memory serves, the reason we use QWERTY is because the Dvorak keyboard is too *easy* to use. Back in the day of typewriters (anyone seen one recently?? :-D), when people would type with Dvorak, the typewriters couldn't keep up, so the decision-makers changed the keyboard to something slower - QWERTY. Now, this could all be BS, and I look like a complete tool now, or people will be wow-ed by knowledge, and I'll look smart. :-D