there are some possebilities the first 1 is that the server is not up you don't check errors at all in the winsock.h there are list of errors you can take the error value (which is unsigned int)and send it to acheckerror function which does switch case over all the possebilities and then know more specific what is the problem any way good luck Rami Buchnik

Have you tried: SendMessage ( hStatusBarWnd, SB_SETTIPTEXT, (WPARAM)(INT)iStatusBarPart, (LPARAM)(LPCTSTR)lpcszTextToDisplayAsTooltip ); code sequence? The status bar window must be created (as in the following example) using g_hStatusBarWnd = CreateWindowEx ( 0L, STATUSCLASSNAME, 0, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | SBT_TOOLTIPS, 0, 0, 0, 0, hParentWnd, (HMENU)ID_STATUSBAR, g_hInstance, 0 ); For more information, you can check the WindowsNT System Manager, where you can find, among other stuff like this, also something about status bar APIs. All the best, Sardaukar ================== The original message was: How could I make status bar to show tool tips for its panes? Regards, Stefan ----------

The problem is most like caused because you're trying to access the same column's value twice. I haven't debugged into the GetFieldValue code but I do know from experience that you may only retrieve a column's value once and in the proper order. In other words, if you do SELECT *, you must access the columns in the same order as they appear on the table. If you do a SELECT COL1, COL2, ... you must call GetFieldValue for COL1 before calling it for COL2. I hope this helps, Alvaro