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>> this time it DID NOT cover the small button (which means it is even worse!)

I'm pretty sure there's at least one progress-bar class in the freeware category in Lib 8. Suggest you check the library listing to see if you can find one you like. -steve

They don't mind not explaining it as applied to AFX, why should it bother them when applied to OCX? (If this is really a problem for them they need to apply some imagination and make up a believeable meaning for it.) -steve

There are several navigators available. I tried WinNAV, OzCIS, NavCIS, and I think another one or two before settling on WigWam; there are things about it that I'd like to see improved, but it has the user interface that I find most intuitive. You can download a demo then register…

(I'm not MS.) Sounds like either a z-order or a WS_CLIPSIBLINGS problem, most likely you don't have WS_CLIPSIBLINGS specified for the new window. Suggest you run SPY and see (a) that you have a "real" window instead of something that just looks like a window but isn't (it can happen),…

It appears that when a transparent window is updated, Windows doesn't bother to have whatever windows are under it updated too. The only solution I've found to this is to capture whatever is under the transparent window as a bitmap and restore it before repainting the transparent window. That isn't…

>> but I can't see how to get a pointer to the main frame from the view m_pMainWnd; // all you need in many cases if (frame != NULL) { CWnd* temp = frame->GetParentFrame(); // in case set to view if (temp != NULL) frame = temp; } There is…

>>I don't know about your attach/subclass problems, but there is an excellent article on the development CD called "A Primer on Designing Custom Controls" by Kraig Brockschmidt. It covers developing custom controls "from scratch".

>> From within my view (or document, app, frame, etc.), how can I figure out the number and size of the toolbars I have at the top of my window?