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Anyone know about this? I am also curious about this, and this is the only post about mapping files that comes up when searched. Does anyone have any experiance on mapping files to do the functions found here?

I am trying to communicate to mIRC using a DDE connection. I have read the basics on what it is, how and why it works, but cannot get any code to work. I only get hundreds of errors, and when i try to figure something out and change a piece of code i get thousands of errors. So any help would be appreciated. Especially code snippits on how to actually get the connection initialized and a request sent and data recieved viewed.

Could you use C++ .net to write a operating system. How do you go about making an operating system? I know that to write something like Windows or even old old Dos is not a easy task. How do you write some code and make it so that the computer will boot up with it. What libraries would you use? Could you start off with writing a simple 'hello world' bit of code and get the computer to boot up, and run your program that simply controls only the monitor to write that text to it? Is that a hard task to acheive. Do you have to use or write drivers to access hard drives, graphics cards and other devices? If you download say the Nvidia graphics card driver how would you know what to call or use from them? I am interested in this because slower X86 Processors are becomming very economical to use in a control type application, but windows is an excessive operating system to use for controlling a few motors, valves etc. And dos is no longered offered by microsoft is it? As well how would you write a compiler. Do you write something that recognizes "print" and then directly interpret print into some machine language that will print something to the screen?

Thats a very good tip. I was wondering if professional programmers that program for a living just remember everything or if they do have to keep referring back to code examples and text books. But I will keep what you said in mind, thanks.

Some times I forget something particular about something. Such as the step function of a for loop, and instead of hunting through 50 sites with 200 tutorials for the one line of comment that i need, so instead i just search old stuff here to see if some newbie like me asked the question before. Its not a big deal really I was only curious as to why

Ok, there was my problem. I was thinking that .5 was .5 inches. But after I put 50 in, it shows up as .5 inches in the Page Setup Dialog. Thanks

Ah yes, thank you Nerseus.

Yea just what pjv said, searching for an API function that does...... Anyways what VolteFace said makes sense so I guess gotta live with whats there. :)

How do i access the VBKeySpace, or VBkeyF1 and such. I cannot remember which namespace it is in. Which is another question. If i know something exists but forget the namespace it is in, how do i find it?

I have been trying to search many things, but the minimum length of a word to search for I find is ridiculous, especially for a programming forum. Key Codes cannot be searched because of this. API Functions, For Loops, and many more cannot be searched. Sure you can get functions, but you get too many results and most of them are not even related to API. How do you search anything API for that matter. There is probably a reason for this so someone inform me about this

I use the lines: PageSetupDialog.PageSettings.Margins.Top = 0.5 PageSetupDialog.ShowDialog() PrintDocument.DefaultPageSettings = PageSetupDialog.PageSettings() The PageSetupDialog only will show 0 for the margin i try to set. As well if i put this in a print button where the dialog is not called it gives some error about it cannot access this or something. Why when I TELL it to change the top margin will it always change it to zero or ignore it?

I open a form using the showdialog. When the form closes I need to test if the cancel button or the ok button was pushed on my form. How do i do this?

I thought this was possible by setting the keypreview property on the parent form to true and then using the keypress, keyup, or keydown events of the panel?

By making the back color transparent does that not essentially produce the desired effect. Anything underneath the label should come through and the text of the label should be visible overtop as long as it is the top control on the form.

Have you drawn one group box inside another, or have you dragged one group box into another? Try drawing them away from each other (same size) Then move groupbox1 where you want it Then manually enter the x and y values into group box 2 Then see if the code works