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• garthish Menu Overflow woes

  hi all, a) I have a menu that is built at runtime and items added dynamically. When the menu overflows the overflow menu itself does not have the same back color etc as my main menu. How can i change this b) (Related) as a workaround I changed the fore color of the menu items from white (on the main menu) to black (on the overflow) using the placement property. This works fine for menu items that are created and immediately drop onto the overfl ...Show All

• BugInfested No titlebar?

  Hello Is there a way to make it so that there is no blue titlebar I want to make something like this: http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/img/nero_startsmart_2_big_eng.jpg where the minimize, maximize, and close buttons are not in the boring microsoft's blue title bar... Does anyone know how to do this Thank You very much Keehun Nam Thank you for your help... But I tried... Public const Integer WM_NCLBUTTONDOWN = 0xA1 Public const Integer ...Show All

• Nelk Is vc++ 6.0 good

  i bought a book on vc++6.0.can i build powerful software applications with that.what is the difference between the vc++6.0 and vc++ 2005.what is the latest released version Softbyte wrote: i bought that book for Rs 750.if i read the book can i understand vc++2005 and what will differ between this two.i want to become a expert in vc++ and iam 11 years old.i want to develop softwares using vc++.can u guide me or who can guide me.c ...Show All

• MarkPierce getting the rank of an item in an array of numbers

  hello, does vb provide any function to find out the rank of value of an item (say, a number) in an array of numbers if it doesn't, is there anyway we can make the process less troublesome thanks. Actually it doesn't have a way to do that. When I stop and think about it from a computation pov, a percentile score is about it's relationship to all other scores. Rank is not something that computer peo ...Show All

• Corina H Debugging as a Non-Administrative User

  hi there, I usally work without admin-rights but I am developing an application wich needs to be started with this admin-rights Is it possible to debug the programm with admin-rights Yes - in short, the account that you wish to run under (and debug under) needs to be a member of the Debugger Users group. Here is an excerpt from an MSDN article which deals with this issue: Debugging normal applications When you log on as a ...Show All

• Banaticus Dynamic Textbox - property setting problem.

  Hi Newbie here, please forgive a simple question. I have, with the aid of this Community site, made the following code snippet. It works correctly, adds the textbox to my form, with the correct text etc, but, the only property change not working is the Height component which remains at 20 throughout. From other answers, and the fact that I made my code snippet identical to those, then the Height property should have changed - or, more l ...Show All

• jaypee68 How to show another Form?

  I am a beginner. I have created a simple program (Windows Application) to practice that contain two forrms. Form1 is the main form of my application, and Form2 contain my personal informations. Could you show me how to show Form2 when I click a button on Form1 (I'm using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition) Help me ! Thank you very much ! Thank you very much, Sven De Bont ! I am now v ...Show All

• Steve Thornton Tab Control _click Doesn't

  Ok I give... The tabcontrol_click event. As I read the 'help' file If there is at least one TabPage in the collection, and the user interacts with the tab control's header (where the TabPage names appear), the TabControl raises the appropriate event. However, if the user interaction is within the ClientRectangle of the tab page, the TabPage raises the appropriate event. Just how does one get the tabcontrol to raise it's events Clickin ...Show All

• phygoris Convert std::string to LPCWSTR (best way in c++)

  Hi! How can I convert an std::string to a LPCWSTR What is the best way to do it in C++ Thanks. "Ciao guaglio!" FabioDeSantis wrote: How can I convert an std::string to a LPCWSTR What is the best way to do it in C++ Instead of using a std::string, use a std::wstring (also called a std::basic_string<wchar_t>). I get the feeling you want to pass a std::string type to a Win32 API. Those APIs do ...Show All

• April Reagan SP2?

  Is there any way I can install Visual Basic Express 2005 on my XP SP1 computer or do I have to upgrade to SP2 Could I just use an earlier version of Visual Basic Express. What Microsoft don't seen to realise is that there are users out there that STILL can't use SP2 on there PCs due to driver incompatibilities. - thus they can't use Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Basic 2005 To solve this problem the ...Show All

• Adelaid why is vb.net printing so difficult?

  Hi, I have loads of VB6 apps I am trying to migrate to VB.net and the biggest problem I have is that printer.print has no equivalent in vb.net Can anyone tell me a simple way to print in dot net Thanks Impossible is about right. I just can't see what to type to make something come out on paper, and I have written some neat VB stuff (IMHO) in th epast but this dot net thing has me stumped. Am I miss ...Show All

• CurtGibson Region

  OK..this may be an easy question but I want to know before going any farther in my training. What is a REGION and the purpose of it in coding Thanks, Brian Hi Brian, Region is a graphics programming term used to define an area of the screen. One common use is for "hit testing" - say, for example, you had a form with a picture of a clown face, and you wanted to perform an action when the user clicked on the no ...Show All

• Da Data types: Decimal vs. Double

  Can someone explain to me the difference between a Decimal type & a Double type & explain where it is appropriate to use each one Thanks... OK ... so when would you use Decimal & when would you use Double Should you stick with one type or the other in an application or is it OK to use both I would like to hear what everyone uses & why... One difference i ...Show All

• GTG SQL Exception -- Failed to generate a user instance of SQL server

  I am a beginner and was doing a lesson on the videos on my laptop.  I created a data base according to the lesson and everything went fine.  I went back to the project the next day and received the following message when I tried to expand the "+" sign preceding the name of the data base in the Database explorer; "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL server due to a failure in the starting process for the user instance.  The c ...Show All

• Mr. Jerzy How to start a SQL Server Project with express editions?

  Hello! I've installed sql server 2005 , visual C# 2005 express,visual web developer 2005 express .When I start a new project, I can only choose one of "asp.net project","c# windows app","c# console app","class library" and so on.There is no "sql server project",and also no projects such as "windows service","pocket pc","smartphone"...... Doesn't express edition support these projects How can I start to write some procedures or fu ...Show All