*grin* glad to help Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "I am new to programming world. I have been learning c# for about past four weeks. I am quite acquainted with the fundamentals of c#. Now I have to work on a project which converts given flat files to XML using the XML serialization method" - SK64 ( but the forums have stuff like this posted every day )

For anyone else who wants to achieve this, the FreeImage project provides support for a large number of image codecs and colour modes and has bindings for C#. It is what I used to create a PNG8 file. Steve

;) There are many ways to do many things Life goes very fast. Tomorrow, today is already yesterday.

If you haven't already been swamped with help, Roger Allen did many printing articles way back when: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=3798[^] Throughly nice chap, and a good writer. Shame real life made him stop posting... Iain. Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...

If you don't care about having a window theme you can use CDC::DrawFrameControl[^]. If you want the visual style associated with the current theme then use the solution code-O-matic provided. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

wibblewoo wrote: Oh God I don't know how I didn't find that when I was looking. MSDN has an interesting set of "Using xxxx" series. If interested type in "Using" into the index edit box and you'll see a bunch of articles. Nibu babu thomas Microsoft MVP for VC++ Code must be written to be read, not by the compiler, but by another human being. Programming Blog: http://nibuthomas.wordpress.com

Thanks guys, I'll have a look!

Thank you, But it runs just fine in aero interface :(

Thanks. I guessed that was what would happen but wanted clarification.