Truely I solute you. I really urge you to write an article about it in CodeProject with more details. Many people will miss this old post. I've allowed myself to bookmark this post for future referal. Really brilliant. Regards:rose:

The AVI functions that you brought up where all created with the purpose of editing the AVI file. The application I was looking for was to play an AVI file. I've searched before in all the information that Sarath gave my a link to and I've also looked at the example that you've (DavidCrow) linked me too. But the functions and the example did not provided a simple solution. The purpose for me was to have a simple solution to play an avi, not the implement a complete engine using the AVI-functions. I'm sure that I would be able to accomplish that, but it had to be implemented in a very short period of time. I understand your remarks, and I hope you understand mine as well. kind regards, Ward

Ok, I found it: if(e.Column == 0) { //... } else if(e.Column == 1) { //... } Ward

Stephen Hewitt wrote: I'd be surprised if you couldn't use subclassing to change the colour of the scrollbars. But we cannot take the handle of the default scrollbars. It is only a drawing, not a window, right? Further more the system paints it directly, in many cases( like thumb positioning, etc. ). So we cannot use the OnPaint also. That is why the detours is used. - NS -

Ok, I will give it an in depth look Ward

Well, at first I've tried DrawIcon, but when I wanted to use the bitmap hBitmap5 as the bitmap for a toolbar button (used in TB_ADDBUTTON-message) the area which was supposed to be the background color of the toolbarbuttons, were turned in white. I did found a solution last friday (at last). First I fill the hBitmap5 with the color of the toolbar buttons. The color of the toolbar buttons I was able to retreive using GetSysColor. Then I used the DrawIcon on this hBitmap5. And finally I passed this hBitmap5 to the toolbar with the TB_ADDBUTTON-message. The final result is now exact what I wanted. Anyway, thanks for your reply. kind regards, Ward -- modified at 16:09 Sunday 25th December, 2005

Ok, I figured it out by myself. Finally. Ward

Ward wrote: Thanks! Mention Not! "Opinions are neither right nor wrong. I cannot change your opinion. I can, however, change what influences your opinion." - David Crow cheers, Alok Gupta