Hello, that's still not quite what i want, maybe i'm going about it all wrong. The dialog box has a text box inside, and i would like this to display text strings about the status of the program to the user. The whole process needs to be launched by pressing a button, which launches the form, and only then once the form and controls are visible can the program's main function begin as otherwise any realtime messages to the controls won't be visible. I know i could probably do this more efficiently using another thread but i thought it would be much more complex and error prone. Is there a better way of doing this? Thanks a lot for all your help btw.

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I suggest you that you can use another function like this in API: SetMenuDefaultItem(hMenu,IDM_,FALSE);

No its not possible. That is set in the bios, and you have no programmatical access to the bios.

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>> I'm not sure how to best set the daystates. That would be dependant on the use model for your application. "No matter where you go, there your are." - Buckaroo Banzai -pete

Do it in OnInitDialog() Ant. I'm hard, yet soft. I'm coloured, yet clear. I'm fuity and sweet. I'm jelly, what am I? - David Williams (Little Britain)

Well I worked around it so that I can use it the way I want!:-D:-D:-D Basically I added an invisible Month Calendar control which I then set to the same space as the DateTimePickers rect in the DropDown handler. I also set a flag for bMonthShowing. In the OnPaint method I use the bMonthShowing flag to let me know to reposition the windows m_pMonth->SetWindowPos(&wndNoTopMost, 0, 0, 1, 1, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW); m_ctlMonth.SetWindowPos(&wndTopMost, 0, 0, 1, 1, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_SHOWWINDOW); In the CloseUp handler I set the MonthCalendar invisible. For the month calendar I handle the GetDayStates to set which days I want bold. In the OnSelect for the month calendar I do the following: COleDateTime t; SYSTEMTIME tt; BOOL ret = m_ctlMonth.GetCurSel(&tt); t.SetDate(tt.wYear, tt.wMonth, tt.wDay); m_ctlDatePicker.SetTime(t); (If I did the GetCurSel directly into a COleDateTime it comes back with an invalid status :confused: ) And everything works! All right I missed one or two (or more) things. oops What a kludge! If you want I can send you the whole dialog project. Let me know. Dave

In that case is there a message before the window is displayed but after CView and CDocument have become active, so that I can use CFrameWnd::GetActiveDocument() from MainFrame? Thanks

You can call CMonthCalCtrl::SetDayState() (MESSAGE: MCM_SETDAYSTATE) to set them or better yet respond to the MCN_GETDAYSTATE message that the control sends when it needs new information. This usually occurs when the month changes. From my memory, there is an array of 32 bit values where each value represents a month and each bit represents a day. The on BITS cause the day to be bolded in the calendar if it has the MCS_DAYSTATE style set. There is all sorts of documentation on MSDN. "No matter where you go, there your are." - Buckaroo Banzai -pete

In this particular case: int function( int nParams, ... ); and then use va_list: int function( int nParams, ... ) { int argValue; va_list args; va_start( args, nParams ); for ( int nParam = 0; nParam < nParams; ++nParam ) { argValue = va_arg( args, int ); // Do something with argValue } } Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

::SendMessage(GetSafeHwnd(),WM_ACTION,0,0); ::SendMessage(GetSafeHwnd(),WM_ACTION,0,0); if you want to get the result as you say,you should write like these. when we use postmessage to send the message,the application only send the message to CWnd,then return,the application does not wait for the Command to be carried out. when we use sendmessage to send the message,the appliation return when the command be carried out.If we does not wait for the command to be carried out.The message will be save in the message queue, so the message is FILO,not FIFO zhengyb@nanjing-fnst.com

assume i is 2 bytes for simplicity. int i = 0x1234; byte c1,c2, then according to your logic, the output would be like this. c1 = 0x34; and c2 = 0x12; which is wrong.This is because the way it is stored in the memory. and if you consider for 32bit integer value, the error would just double. and according to PJ c1 = 0x12; & c2 = 0x34; here the output is correct, hope you got the picture now.

This response has nothing to do with this thread except that I found this thread when searching for the cause of this error message. In my case, I had serialized a CStringArray object to a file using a CArchive. Somehow the file became corrupted, overwritten/filled with zeros, when my machine was shut down. When I restarted my machine and my application attempted to load this file, I got the "An invalid argument was encountered" message box. The solution was to use some easily testable numeric values that had already been written in the file prior to the CStringArray as a means to determine if the file was corrupt. At that point my logic treats a corrupt file in the same manner as a non-existent one and simply re-creates it. I've posted this here in the hope my experience might help someone else.

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Simple:CArray<int> *theArray = new CArray<int>; // Examples of populating the array theArray->Add(1); theArray->Add(42); theArray->SetAt(0, 1337); Or am I missing something? :confused: Remember, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Thats really more complicated than I want. All I want is to be able to tell if a file has been opened by double clicking it, the MFC framework already loads the file and Initialises the Document, I simply want to know whether to display a dialog box if a file has not been opened. Thanks anyway