Iframes are done on the server side. They have NOTHING to do with this question. :mad: Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.

Thanks for your advice. It's much appreciated. I now know I'm not just being goofy about things too. Which is always good :) Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck.

Thanks for the reply. I'll look into it. Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck.

Thank you so much Rajkumar, First of all, to respond to your comment: "First of all, obviously, if the margins are overbound it messes up, that is known to the user, do you need to correct it?" I couldn't agree more. It's another completely ridiculous example user madness. Unfortunately, my inclination to tell the user not to set stupid values has been overruled in this case, so here I am. My position is that the page setup dialog box is launched from IE. Therefore, I can either subclass IE's window or I can create my own one and replace the existing dialog box. Is there any way of applying the approach you showed me to an existing Page Setup dialog box owned by IE. I’m working from an ActiveX control running in IE? Many thanks Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck. modified on Friday, January 16, 2009 5:33 AM

Thanks for the response. GetAsyncKeyState also returns a value > 0 if the key was pressed since the last call to it as well as if the event is currently active. If I'm checking for the right mouse key and someomeone enters the sequence: right key, left key, right key and I make a call each time, I should at least get 0,0 1. To counteract the first false negative I ignore the first call's result assuming that the first right click event is always correct as in this case the first event is what sets off the problem. I'm assuming this is what is going on as it now works. It's not the way I would have chosen. I'll have to keep an eye on it. Again, thanks for the comment, Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck.

Thanks for the response. Adding text as you have done seems to change it somewhat. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with read only files and as such I'm only trying to highlight what's already present. The call to Select() doesn't highlight the content, only the outline of the cell :( Thanks though Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck.

Added the following code and fixed the problem: // this is derived from CComControl STDMETHOD(SetClientSite)(IOleClientSite *pClientSite) { if (pClientSite) { RECT rc = {0,0,0,0}; // Don't have access to the container's window so just use the // desktop. Window will be resized correctly during in-place // activation. HWND hWnd = CreateControlWindow(::GetDesktopWindow(), rc); _ASSERT (hWnd); } return IOleObjectImpl::SetClientSite (pClientSite); } HRESULT InPlaceActivate(LONG iVerb, const RECT\* prcPosRect) { // Get the container's window. \_ASSERT (m\_spClientSite); LPOLEINPLACESITE pInPlaceSite = NULL; HRESULT hr = m\_spClientSite->QueryInterface(IID\_IOleInPlaceSite, (void \*\*)&pInPlaceSite); \_ASSERT (SUCCEEDED (hr) && pInPlaceSite); HWND hParent = NULL; hr = pInPlaceSite->GetWindow (&hParent); \_ASSERT (SUCCEEDED (hr) && hParent); pInPlaceSite->Release (); // Set container window as our parent window SetParent (hParent); return CComControlBase::InPlaceActivate(iVerb, prcPosRect); } Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck.

I'm getting the same error on W7 using VS 2008 and the same sample code. I am writing to a temp folder with security set to all access for "Everyone" from a shell running with Administrator priviledge. It still doesn't work. Probably, as usual, MS sample code is incomplete, or not even wrong. -Geoff

Ah, very true, the miracle properties of sand. I believe it's customary to use a stone with your left hand. Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck.

Thanks George :) Cheers Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life. Religion: Morality taking credit for the work of luck. "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." - Marcus Aurelius

Ri Qen-Sin wrote: Does this feature count as encouraging bad coding practices? Most people dont need to be encouraged in the wrong direction. Compiler optimizations typically improve the simple cases, and seldom drastically improve the complex cases (where most could be gained!). So staying vigilent would pay off frequently. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] this weeks tips: - make Visual display line numbers: Tools/Options/TextEditor/... - show exceptions with ToString() to see all information - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google

It just means I got nothing. It's probably not the best term to use on a programming site. Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life.

Thanks, I was wondering if anyone would pick that up. Brad Australian - peterchen on "Who has the worst keyboard" Keyboard? Ha! I throw magnets over the RAM chips!

Thanks I'll post if I find any thing useful. Tom Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life.

Thanks for your help Ravi Tom:) Philosophy: The art of never getting beyond the concept of life.

Ah. That's how you get to it. I knew it was around here somewhere :) Steve S Developer for hire