ah... just what I was looking for. Thanks :). -Tareq

I was thinking more along the lines of rewriting the macros which make use of __noop. -- Arigato gozaimashida!

Got it to work using SetupDiSetDeviceRegistryProperty() ... didnt know of this. -Tareq

If you are using MFC you can use CObject::Serialize() Ant.

Sometimes it's easier to use the Win32 api... eg. LRESULT OnCreate(UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, BOOL& bHandled) { hSTMode = ::CreateWindowEx(0L, STATUSCLASSNAME, _T("Full Auto"), WS_CHILD, 0, 0, 0, 0, m_hWnd, (HMENU)IDC_MODE_DISPLAY, _Module.GetResourceInstance(), NULL); } where hSTMode is an HWND and m_hWnd is the parent window (eg. CWindow) This will create the window if you have a corresponding message handler. You then need to send SB_SETPARTS to hSTMode which will fill in the window with rects and stuff. See the MSDN documentation under common controls for an example. Ryan

In Markus Loibl's code, it returns some value which is not 0. -Tareq

You're inside a static function of a class - therefor you can't access member functions. Typically what people do is pass in a application variable to the thread's void* argument. In your case, this would be a pointer to the instance of your Dialog class. then you could refernece it. However with that solved your next problem will arise in making changes to UI controls from outside the main UI thread of execution. You must be very careful when doing this or risk causing lock, or various other wicked and evil things to happen. To simplify this, you might consider Posting a message back to your dialog class instance and then accessing the control there. This way you ensure that you're back in the context of the main UI thread. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!

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:-D thankx a lot man ... i knew it was a silly mistake!!! -Tareq

I think youre right. I have tried the same code with the new mingw compiler and it works like a charm. :) but the only problem is debugging :( so i guess i have to work with it until i complete downloading the platform sdk (300MB+) on my dialup line :((. Thankx man. -Tareq