Look at ExtTextOut.

ko - we crossed messages (my fault) - see the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SDK - or use that as a search term in your favourite engine ... 'g'

Just a guess but try adding the WS_EX_TRANSPARENT style to your tooltip and see if it changes anything, don't know what it might screw up though... > The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. < > Sometimes you just have to hate coding to do it well. <

What about embedding WebBrowser ? http://weborama.blogspot.com/2004/10/mshtml-hosting-editing.html[^] HTML editor for VC++ 6.0[^] ...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack

The \verbatim tag instructs the Doxygen parser to skip over a block of text. I'd have preferred to use an XML tag but it works and remains readable in the source.

... or, instead of a singleton, you could write a CRITICAL_SECTION wrapper class. e.g. something like class CS : public CRITICAL_SECTION { public: CS( ulong SPINCOUNT = 4000 ) { #ifdef _DEBUG ::InitializeCriticalSectionEx(this, SPINCOUNT, 0); #else ::InitializeCriticalSectionEx(this, SPINCOUNT, CRITICAL_SECTION_NO_DEBUG_INFO); #endif } ~CS() { ::DeleteCriticalSection(this); } }; then use it wherever you used CRITICAL_SECTION. ...cmk The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. - John Carmack

Wow, this thread had me actually laughing out loud! 5's for everyone. Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.

Silly Hoplophobe. :rolleyes: The latest nation. Procrastination.

I'm pretty sure that's extended MAPI but I'll check just in case. Thanks for the suggestion.

Hi Steve, I dont see anything about RichEdit20WPT in the MSDN about Rich Edit Controls[^]. If the naming convention is any clue then it is most likely an extended RichEdit20W control used exclusively in Microsoft Office. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

He's an idiot. I have a mixed environment of both opensource (CentOS/Gentoo) and Windows (2003/2008). They both have their advantages and disadvantages. Updates for Windows, generally awesome, updates for Linux, pain. Uptime of server, Windows - generally good, can go about 90 days on a single boot, but thats because of 3rd party software, a base MS system, well, Had one up for 183 days, had to turn it off because I decided to put in another hard drive. And the same goes for Linux. Windows setup/configure - easy, Linux - pain. But hey, alot of people like it because its whole lot cheaper. And PHP/Perl is alot easier to get going reliably on linux then windows. But these are just my experiences. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Aristotle

That did the job. Thanks for the suggestion.

Tell the OP that, then, rather than me. Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p