viperlogic wrote: what shoud i be checking to see if the field is empty? CIPAddressCtrl::GetAddress() returns the number of non-blank fields. "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

Try this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch14e.asp[^] ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!

viperlogic wrote: so where is this box coming from!!! Unicodedness of your program without writing the unicode-header? A decent file editor (as opposed to a CEdit-gone-application like notepad) like Ultraedit would show it. "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." -- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

EN_******** messages are for EditBoxes controls ;)

viperlogic wrote: i am scanning alot of hosts with this app, waiting 2mins for every host would take for ever to scan the network, hence i use the thread timeout of 3secs I did something very similar to this in a ping-type application. For each machine that I was going to ping, I just created a secondary thread and put the ping-related code in it. Given that the machines each responded in their own time, the threads all completed at different times; some were instantaneous while others took a lot longer. If your UI has some sort of listbox or list control for these machines, give them a default status of "Establishing connection. Please wait...". When that machine's thread terminates, replace the default status with what actually happened. viperlogic wrote: i just read about _endthread and it appears to work so far. is this a proper solution? Not unless you also used _beginthread(). Regardless, it is called from within the secondary thread. Terminating a thread from within itself is vastly different than terminating a thread from some other thread. "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain "There is no death, only a change of worlds." - Native American Proverb

viperlogic wrote: so will i get away with using CoInitializeEx() with COINIT_MULTITRHEADED and not having to use marshalling? In theory this is possible and usually requires the free-threaded-marshaler (FTM) and you also have to be aware that when your thread that created the server finishes it has to call ::CoUninitalize() which unloads the COM library for that thread which can get you into trouble. It also depends on the server whether it supports free-threading or not. The use of free-threading is usually complicated and not for the faint-hearted. If you really want to create the server to be created in a secondary thread, I suggest you create the server and marshal the interface back to the main thread, or whatever thread you like, by ::CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream() and ::CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream(). You can alert the receiving thread by posting a message or setting an event informing the thread that the server is created and the interface can be retrieved with ::CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream(). This is not so complicated compared to free-threading. In other words: a good place to start. N.B. since this kind of questions are COM related you should post in the COM forum instead. Hope this helps -- Roger It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!

thx, that worked can explain why thou?

yes, that is correct, while the other dialog is called once a button is click in the main dialog is this having an effect?

Hi, This is kind of thing I would use another thread for ... Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch

catch the return value like this : CMainDlg::OnInitDialog() { CDialog::OnInitDialog(); CLoginDlg dlg; INT\_PTR nResponse = dlg.DoModal(); if (nResponse == IDCANCEL) { this->EndDialog(IDCANCEL); } return TRUE; }

i think his problem is MFC because he's been asking so manu times about data binding... :( see by your eyes[^]...

i am using MFC & dialogs alright

so what's your problem...? your can fetch datas into all of these grid...

perfect many thanks

did all that and now get the error LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib "LIBC" conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library so if select the option in properties of "ignore all default libraries" i then get over 200 errors!!

void CKeithDlg::OnLogin() { ShowWindow(SW_HIDE); CMainDlg Dlg; Dlg.DoModal(); EndDialog(IDOK); } Manish Rastogi

Can you give a specific of code form your project. If you want to assign the parent window, please assign the handle of the main window. But I can be more helpful if you can give sepcific of your code cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it

You can show or hide a window by CWnd::ShowWindow (nShow); where nShow is either SW_SHOW or SW_HIDE. You need to use modeless Dialog boxes in order to be able to pass command from one dialog to another. William

stupid me!! i had that already done with out knowing it m_strIP2.GetAddress(nField0, nField1, nField2, nField3); did the trick then thanks for your help

A text book example of a cut and paste error (the second one). Steve