If you are using VS6.0 with MFC, there may be a problem with how your message handlers are written.  The version of MFC that ships with 6.0 is very tolerant of mismatched signatures with the message handlers.    For example, when you create an ON_MESSAGE handler, the function used with it is supposed to have a signature of LRESULT func( WPARAM, LPARAM ), but if you created the function as void func( WPARAM, LPARAM ), it would/may still compile and run correctly in debug, but would crash quickly in release.    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not! * * * If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles

James, Thanks for your answer. I have now indeed introduced a flag, which is set in an overridden DoModal routine. Works just fine. Thanks, William

Thanks for this info james. Nibu thomas A Developer Code must be written to be read, not by the compiler, but by another human being. http:\\nibuthomas.wordpress.com

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Yes you can use of CListCtrlwith CListImage but If you know C# you can see an article of Mr Mark clifton about your question on that article you can Inc or Dec size of thumbnail of images WhiteSky

Brad, Thanks for your reply. I unfortunately do not yet have anything of this all on-line, it still resides on my d: disk (which I cannot open to the outside world) I would be happy to send you a zipfile with the complete content 357 kb). If you would like me to do that, then please send me an email to: wim.engberts@centric.nl to which I can then reply with this zipfile. Thanks in advance William

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Thanks, That was indeed the one I forgot about. Regards, William

If possible, debug in release mode. May this link[^]is helpful to you. Prasad Notifier using ATL | Operator new[],delete[][^]

Thanks, I'll try that. Regards, WIlliam

Now whats problem? _** **_ WhiteSky

Did you use ATL via #import? You can control namespaces if you do that. "Alot of the people on this forum are incredibly stupid, thinking that the internet is real" Score: 1.0 in the Soap Box led mike

Is GetDefaultPrinter good? _** **_ WhiteSky

Never mind. Importantly, you shared your solution, that's great ! Prasad Notifier using ATL

I am using a derived class "CListCtrlEx", which has the following code for adding a row: BOOL CListCtrlEx::AddLine(char *Elements, UINT Id, int iImage) { LVITEM Item; register int i = 0; register int j = 0; int subItem = 0; int r = 1; int k = 0; char szItem[256]; memset (&Item, '\0', sizeof (LVITEM)); Item.mask = LVIF_TEXT|LVIF_PARAM; Item.iItem = m_ItemId++; Item.lParam = Id; while (r && Elements[k] != '\0') { j = k; i = 0; while (Elements[j] != '\0'&& Elements[j] != '\t') { if (i < 250) szItem[i++] = Elements[j]; j++; } szItem[i] = '\0'; Item.iSubItem = subItem++; Item.pszText = &szItem[0]; if (k == 0) { if (iImage != -1) { Item.iImage = iImage; Item.mask |= LVIF_IMAGE; } if (InsertItem (&Item) == -1) r = 0; else r = 1; } else if ((r = SetItem (&Item)) != 0) r = 1; if (Elements[k=j] == '\t') k++; Item.mask = LVIF_TEXT; } return r; } I present this routinew with a character array in which the elements (columns) are separated by tabs. As you can see, the routine only adds an image when the parameter "iImage" does not equal -1, which it does when I populate the contgrol with only recent items where I do not want to see icons. Again: The icons do not show, but the space for the icons remains reserved, which leads to the situation that, on first appearance, the left elements are completely left aligned, but after showing the history items, they always show shifted to the right. William

Hi try this, may help u http://support.microsoft.com/kb/178749/E-US/ then use this code in ur programme BOOL CLastApp::InitInstance() { if(!AfxOleInit()) // Your addition starts here { AfxMessageBox("Could not initialize COM dll"); return FALSE; } else { //AfxMessageBox("Inint"); } _Application app; // app is the Excel _Application object if(!app.CreateDispatch("Word.Application")) { AfxMessageBox("Couldn't start Excel."); } else { app.SetVisible(TRUE); } COleVariant covTrue((short)TRUE),covFalse((short)FALSE),covOptional((long)DISP_E_PARAMNOTFOUND, VT_ERROR),covFormat( short(7)); COleVariant m_Long((long)DISP_E_PARAMNOTFOUND, VT_ERROR); AfxEnableControlContainer(); Documents docs = app.GetDocuments(); unsigned long int i = 1; CFileFind finder; CString file_name; CString path; BOOL bWorking = finder.FindFile("d:/george/*.doc"); while(bWorking){ bWorking = finder.FindNextFile(); file_name = finder.GetFileName(); path = "D:\\george\\"+ file_name; //AfxMessageBox(path); _Document doc = docs.Open( COleVariant(path), covTrue, // Confirm Conversion. covTrue, // ReadOnly. covFalse, // AddToRecentFiles. covOptional, // PasswordDocument. covOptional, // PasswordTemplate. covFalse, // Revert. covOptional, // WritePasswordDocument. covOptional, // WritePasswordTemplate. covTrue, covTrue, covOptional, covOptional, covOptional, covOptional); /*VARIANT* FileName, VARIANT* FileFormat, VARIANT* LockComments, VARIANT* Password, VARIANT* AddToRecentFiles, VARIANT* WritePassword, VARIANT* ReadOnlyRecommended, VARIANT* EmbedTrueTypeFonts, VARIANT* SaveNativePictureFormat, VARIANT* SaveFormsData, VARIANT* SaveAsAOCELetter, VARIANT* Encoding, VARIANT* InsertLineBreaks, VARIANT* AllowSubstitutions, VARIANT* LineEnding, VARIANT* AddBiDiMarks)*/ /*doc.SaveAs(COleVariant(path), covFormat,covOptional,covOptional, covOptional,covOptional,covFalse,covOptional, covTrue,covFalse,covOptional, covOptional,covTrue,covOptional,covOptional,covOptional);*/ file_name.Format("%lu",i); path = "D:\\work\\"+file_name+".txt"; //AfxMessageBox(path); doc.SaveAs( COleVariant(path),

Why don't you use one of MFC's or STL's containers? They will grow/shrink without having to worry about memory management. "Money talks. When my money starts to talk, I get a bill to shut it up." - Frank "Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb