hai Anonymous, Even i was trying for the same kind of utillity and used grid controls(an activex control utility) for this purpose . even u can try grid controls and see if it fits ur requirment. I had some problems doing the above so if get or come across a better idea plz do share it with . I am trying to implements table just like in MS-Word. Thanks in advance :rose:

i want to develop a texteditor exactly like similar to notepad can any one help me with some suggestion. i donot want to use edit boxes or richedit control for this purpose thanks in advance

sorry for replying so late and thanks for ur suggestion the problem here is not with rgns i could actually get the desired output on the screen with FrameRgn( , ,1,1); but when i take a print out i get an image with more width to what i see on the screen i am not able to under stand the problem as u suggested paths r powerful but they do not support arcs and ellipses in win 98 platform so i could not use paths for creating aregion o fill the path thanks for ur help