Number of ways... e.g. GetWindowText() GetDlgItemText() Have a look in MSDN for more info on both these. If it's an MFC app dialog app and you have the Resource ID just use something like: GetDlgItemText(IDC_STATIC, string); where string in a CString reference, for example. Regards, Brian Dela :-) Run naked in the snow until you're sweating like a stuck pig and can't seem to catch your breath. When the flu becomes pneumonia, they can cure that with a shot. - Roger Wright

I've pasted a section from the MSDN library showing where to register your context menu handler (that is what you want isn't it?) so it would be effective. I'd start with "Folder" and then work you're way through... If you wanted ONLY the desktop to have your menu item rather than all directories, then that's a different question... Good luck, Iain. Predefined Shell Objects The Shell defines additional objects under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT which can be extended in the same way as file types. For example, to add a property sheet handler for all files, you can register under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers. The following table gives the various subkeys of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT under which extension handlers can be registered. Note that many extension handlers cannot be registered under all of the listed subkeys. For further details, see the specific handler's documentation. Subkey Description Possible Handlers Version * All files Shortcut Menu, Property Sheet, Verbs (see below) All AllFileSystemObjects All files and file folders Shortcut Menu, Property Sheet, Verbs 4.71 Folder All folders Shortcut Menu, Property Sheet, Verbs All Directory File folders Shortcut Menu, Property Sheet, Verbs All Directory\Background File folder background Shortcut Menu only 4.71

You will need to use the IsDialogMessage function in your message loop to dispatch your message to the dialog rather than DispatchMessage. Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!

Are you using WinMain(...) or main(...). If you use WinMain, you have to call the function AllocConsole(); before calling GetStdHandle(...); :-D -Dominik

To register a class in Registry, and later use Findwindow to post a message to that class

Following code isn't perfect but it works and should get you started. If you look at the documentation for RegSetValueEx() you can set the dwType param to REG_DWORD for numbers but I usually just deal with strings and use atoi() or similar to convert. bool bGetRegistryEntry(const HKEY hKey, const char* name, unsigned char* const dest) { bool bReturnVal = true; unsigned long lType = 0; unsigned long ulSize = MAX_PATH; if (ERROR_SUCCESS != RegQueryValueEx(hKey, name, NULL, &lType, dest, &ulSize)) { bReturnVal = false; } return (bReturnVal); } bool bSetRegistryEntry(const HKEY hKey, const char* name, unsigned char const* dest) { bool bReturnVal = true; unsigned long lType = 0; LONG lRESULT = 0; lRESULT = RegSetValueEx(hKey, name, 0, REG_SZ, dest, _mbslen(dest) + 1); //ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED indicates it already exists if ((lRESULT != ERROR_SUCCESS) && (lRESULT != ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED)) { bReturnVal = false; } return (bReturnVal); } // Open or create registry. void vRegOpenKey() { HKEY hKey=0; //char *my_App = "Registry_Example"; CString sAppId = "SOFTWARE\\RegKeyExample"; bool bReturnVal = false; DWORD dwDisposition = 0; if (ERROR_SUCCESS != RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sAppId, 0, KEY_READ, &hKey)) { LONG lRESULT = 0; lRESULT = RegCreateKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, sAppId, 0, REG_NONE, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, NULL, &hKey, &dwDisposition); if (lRESULT != ERROR_SUCCESS) { MessageBox(NULL, "Registry not available!", NULL, NULL); return; } } const unsigned char name[5] = "this"; if (!bSetRegistryEntry(hKey, "value1", &name[0])) { MessageBox(NULL, "Unable to set registry value1", NULL, NULL); } else { unsigned char name2[5]; if (bGetRegistryEntry(hKey, "value1", name2)) { CString sText; sText.Format("Registry value1 is %s", name2); MessageBox(NULL, sText, NULL, NULL); } else { MessageBox(NULL, "Unable to get registry value1", NULL, NULL); } } RegCloseKey( hKey ); }

DDE is somewhat of an outdated technology, there are better ways to do interprocess communication in Win32. You could do a number of things to signal your app X2 that the file has been written by X1 including the following: 1. X1 can find a windows handle to your X2 app and send that window a message when it completes its task. 2. Both apps would register a custom message with the function "RegisterWindowMessage". Both apps would pass in a special string that hopefully only your app will register, and when X1 completes its task, it can broadcast the message that is returned from the api and X2 should handle that message. 3. Create a named event in both applications, and X2 will user WaitForSingleObject or some other wait function and wait for the event that you create. I think I would choose solution 3. There are other possibilities as far as application synchronization, these are just a few that I thought of off the top of my head. Good Luck Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!

udayGovekar wrote: what should be done to provide the resize option to user for modeless dialog http://www.codeproject.com/dialog/resizabledialog.asp[^] Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com What is "scratch" and why can everything be made from it?

hi, Did u check up on the corrected code i posted ? There was a corection "new char". Rgds, Sharad

It is crashing at modeless, further I have not created this as local. When communication is happening I wnat to show the data sent/received for which I am using the modeless. If I assign the packet(CString type) to my edit variable(CString type of modeless dialog class), it is getting crashed.When I tried to assign it to the local variable it is not crashing

FreeLancer wrote: Are you not getting confused with "loop back"? Hmmm, maybe. I am going by the driver stuff installed for the RS-485 card in my PC. It can have a half/full duplex mode. Your probably right. Its been a long time since I looked at it*. * Need to get my memory chips upgraded - finally I may have 2K! Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.