mkae a shortcut to the batch file. go the property of the short cut and tell it to run minimised. then tell windows to run that shortcut in startup. that should slove your problem

i'vew tried both Replace() and strchr and they dont find the \ in the string, i tried str.Replace('\"', 'A') and it did nothing, if i change the '/"' to another letter in the string it replaces them perfectly. any idea whats up? thanks

Hi i have one CString which has text in it, i wish to scan thsi text and replace all the "\" with another charature. However every time i try to search the string looking for the "\" using strchr etc all i get is an error message saying error C2001: newline in constant any help on how to slove this?

yeah im a MFC user (only been using c++ for about 2 weeks) Thanks for the help that should do what i want it to do

hi, i want to know how to copy the contents of an array of strings into a listbox which can be displaied on screen? Any help would be nice. Thanks

thanks for the reply, the problem is that im a complete muppet and can never get libary's to work. anyone care to explain how too? (And yes im know it may seem usless but i aint been use visual c++ for very long) Thanks

hi, anyone got any idea how to convert a bitmap to a jpeg without using an already made libary? (please explain it, because i dont know visual c++ very well) Thanks

Hi, i wish to use the CxImage libary in my project i am working on. Sadly due to me being a complete muppet and not knowing hardly any visual c++ or knowing how the compiler works properly, i can seem to get the libary to work. Anyone know a decsent tut on how to use libaries as this would help me a lot. Thanks a lot

Cheers worked a treat

Hi, im quite new to Visual C++ (so please go easy on the mombo jumbo thanks). What i am looking to do is make a "open" dialog. I can easly do it with CFileDialog ldFile(TRUE); if (ldFile.DoModal() == IDOK) { } This brings up a normal open window. However im trying to get it to be a open directory window (like this on http://img121.exs.cx/img121/446/open8js.jpg[^]) Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks Cult