VanHlebar wrote: post a message directly to it? Yes, you can do that. I suggest you use registered messages for that. Use the RegisterWindowMessage function to do that. Regards, João Paulo

VanHlebar wrote: I created the file on my desktop using Notepad so I am sure that the file is not Unicode and I wonder if that is having anything to do with this? This is where I would look first. Use the Notepad encoding option on File / Save As... and choose Unicode. Regards, João Paulo

Please show us a little bit of your code! Regards, Daniel. -- FIND A JOB YOU LOVE, AND YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORK A DAY OF YOUR LIFE. ;)

João, Thanks, I figured it out. Yes I am using MFC. It had something to do with the CCETitleBar object of your that I was using. I had it defined in a view class that was not instatiated yet at the time I was calling the first "wizard". To fix it I just moved the CCeTitleBar object into the first view class and then everything worked as it was supposed. The reason it was working in the second instance of calling the same code was because the "wizard" was being called after all of the different view classes were instatiated. I am not really sure why the CCeTitleBar object was causing this. It was never created yet and there was no call to it or any of its methods inside my dll, but its fixed anyways. Thanks, -Eric

My first option would be to look into the view updating mechanism. Is it possible that one view is being updated (via OnUpdate) with data that is meant for the other? Regards, João Paulo

Check the article here: QA: How do I add a title to a view?[^] Regards, João Paulo

João Paulo Figueira wrote: You can set a breakpoint on that line and inspect the call stack to see where in your code that method was called. Beware that call stack information is not always intiutive. Joao, Thanks for the help and the tip. After doing the above I was able to figure out that one of my views was calling this too many times and I was able to fix it in less than five minutes. This bug had been following me around since I started the app a few months ago! Thanks again! -Eric

Ryan, Thanks for the help. I don't see an OnNcCreate() in the ppc framework. I thought it would be part of the CWd class but I don't see it defined. I tried altering the CREATESTRUCT in the PreCreateWindow and setting the cy attribute to 300 since the screen is 240 x 320. This I was hoping would give me 20 pixels to work with at the top of the screen. When you say adjust the non-client area are these actual members of the CWD class? Thanks again for the help, -Eric

Iain, Thanks for the help. I have used the EN_CHANGE message for each edit control and then I turned off the other spin controls if one was increased. The problem is that when the user clicks up again it will turn them all back on again. Here is a snippet of my code. Any ideas? I want to be able to only increase one of the 6 spin controls then turn off the rest. If the users then decreases the one spin control by one then it needs to turn the other controls back on again. void CMyDialog::OnChangeEditOne() { if(!bFirstRun) { if(!bOne) { m_cTwo.EnableWindow(FALSE); m_cThree.EnableWindow(FALSE); m_cFour.EnableWindow(FALSE); m_cFive.EnableWindow(FALSE); m_cSix.EnableWindow(FALSE); m_cOk.EnableWindow(TRUE); bOne = TRUE; } else { m_cTwo.EnableWindow(TRUE); m_cThree.EnableWindow(TRUE); m_cFour.EnableWindow(TRUE); m_cFive.EnableWindow(TRUE); m_cSix.EnableWindow(TRUE); m_cOk.EnableWindow(FALSE); bOne = FALSE; } } else bFirstRun = FALSE; } Thanks again. -Eric

When you link to an MFC extension DLL, its resources are listed in a resource chain that is searched when looking for one. If its not found in the apps resources, each MFC extension DLL is checked in the order added to the chain until a matching resource is found (if available). This is why you were getting the problem as an existing resource already existed in your app with the same ID. Its just a matter of being cautious. Anyway, glad it solved your problem. Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 This is a multiple choice question, choose wisely Why did the hedgehog cross the road? A: To show he had guts? B: To see his flat mate?

I think this would help but I think the CString created will be gone once it is out of scope. I think the CString needs to be new-ed and passed as a pointer. The Ten Commandments For C Programmers

This article Plug-In Architecture.asp[^] of mine does what Chris is suggesting. Its probably overkill for your current situation, but you should be able to cut out the bits you needs and modify them to what you require. Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 This is a multiple choice question, choose wisely Why did the hedgehog cross the road? A: To show he had guts? B: To see his flat mate?

Another way of doing it would be for you to learn COM+ wich is the standard that Microsoft uses for Dll's. I find COM+ the easiest way of doing it. Preferably by using ATL but you can do it with MFC aswell. Any respectible book about MFC or ATL would do for you. Just make sure that the MFC book contains chapters about COM/Automation/OLE. /Martin

Ok.. I found it. Needed to use #if !defined and #endif in the header file. :D -Eric

Tim Smith wrote: The problem is you are working with UNICODE strings and trying to use the ANSI conversion routine. That is just silly. As people have already said, use the UNICODE conversion routine "wtof". float fResult = wtof (str); That will work just fine. Tim Smith Tim, Thanks for the suggestion. The wtof function works fine, but it truncates the value to a whole number. I lose the precision after the decimal if I use this function. I need a value going out only to the tenths, but I do need to keep the one decimal place. -Eric