1. No, it is not the Express. It is the full professional version. 2. I do not receive any error message. Even more strange: I started a new project in order to test this issue. It is the simple dialog with the default buttons, I have not done anything yet. The dialog editor has been started automatically, and it works as supposed to - however, the resource tab is still empty in the new project as well. I added a bitmap resource; I could edit it, but after having closed it, the recource tab is still empty. Moreover, the class view tab too is empty, both in the converted and in the new project.

Thanks, it was very quick.

I can't see where the behavior would be different between the scroll bars. WM_MOUSEMOVE messages go to the window under the cursor. If the cursor is over a scrollbar control then the messages should go to that control. Mark "Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

Did you set the compiler option to enable RTTI (Run time type info)? If not use DYNAMIC_CAST as this will work without the compiler option. John

Ok no problem :) There's lots of us here that can help with the cursor problem if needed! Good luck! Mark "Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

Thanks, it works with KEYDOWN

Vancouver wrote: 1. A rather polemic question, isn't it? Wasn't meant to be. Using GetDeviceCaps(NUMCOLORS) is useful for getting a color table size and that's about it. The BITSPIXEL and PLANES items are the most useful for creating a DDB/DIB with a format which matches a device. The NUMCOLORS item is helpful when you need to create a palette and/or a color table. Vancouver wrote: 2. Of course "correct color" is something more than one bit per pixel (i.e. not what I received in CreateCompatibleBitmap). "Of course" to you, but to us non-mind readers it's not so obvious. In my original response I posted code that does NOT return a bitmap with a monochrome format (unless you have your video set to a monochrome mode). You stated something doesn't match the documentation, yet I am unable to find what you were referring to specifically. This stuff hasn't changed since the beginning of Windows so the documentation is pretty mature, so, I respectfully disagree :). Vancouver wrote: 3. Yes, that's what my comparisons resulted. Since my original response you have found a solution so I guess that makes the above points irrelevant anyway. I just won't be able to sleep at night if you go on thinking that you can't create a DDB the same format as the screen...after all, you may need to do that someday - for double buffering and the like. :) Cheers! Mark Great job, team. Head back to base for debriefing and cocktails.

The docu of VC++6.0 is miserable, but that's not the same as factually erroneous. I haven't got used to the idea of fighting against factual errors in the documentation. However, in fairness I have to say, that this is not an error in the docu. After re-reading the documentation, I realized it: it states only that the definition does not have to be prior the pointer, but it says nothing about the declaration.

Vancouver wrote: It is like scratching the right ear with the left hand. The file length is known and recorded somewhere during open. seekg with ios::end uses exactly that information - but how to get it directly? I agree, a lit cumbersome, but your way isn't that cleaner..., moreover I don't like such hacking-like actions with class data members (only matter of style). Vancouver wrote: Btw, I don't understand, why to substract the position of file beginning; is there any case, when that is not zero? 'cause, AFAIK nowhere (documentation) is stated that tellg() will return 0 at the beginning of the file. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.

Try to use Partition Magic. It was from PowerQuest, but now it is Symatrec. Partition Magic allaws to convert from NTFS to FAT32. You will not lose Long Name. Only a DOS cann't use Long Names. But in Win95 OSR2 or higher you could see Long names. (Win95 OSR2 has a FAT32 support, Only WIN95 has only FAT16 aka FAT support). You can Split, Merge, Resize, Convert, Split, Move, Copy, Delete or backup entire partition.

is CDC::StretchBlt is of any help StretchBlt is a different issue. In the meantime I found that both SetWindowPos and MoveWindow work with the co-ordinates (0,0) as well (I had thought that would be rejected). However, this is probably no help for my original problem: performance.

Thankx; I was looking for just these functionalities (without knowing their names :-)

Thankx; I was looking for just these functions

Following is only for the record (and for the improbable case, that someone experiences a like problem). I found the problem. The original problem description was incorrect. The OnSize handler changes the size of certain columns. This in itself does not trigger OnSize, however it can cause inserting or removing the horizontal scroll bar, and THAT causes OnSize. Now, the problem was, that this OnSize message has not been queued but started immediately, i.e. recursively; in other words, the processing of the original OnSize message has not been finished yet, and the new one got started - a big mess.

It appears to be an elegant solution, but it shoots a magnitude farther than I can use in the given context. Thanks anyway.

1. I DID find, that PreTranslateMessage received the ALT key combinations in this situation (where the ALT has been simulated). Btw, this is a dialog-based application, there is no system menu. I realize I should have written that in the first post. 2. The first non-disabled tab-stop button DOES receive the focus automatically, but not always. One case is after the ModifyStyle + DoModal, another case was when the focus was on a CEdit control, which became disabled and the focus has not been assigned. As soon as the focus will be assigned explicitely when disabling the control, the problem is gone. Now I am assigning the focus to the dialog, i.e. with "this", which then gives the focus automatically to the first control in the TAB sequence.

"I wanted to rate your response, and accidentally clicked on "1". Sorry for that." nevermind. -prakash

Thank you Cedric, this is just what I wanted; it works fine.