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Philip wrote:

> I am experiencing a most annoying little problem.
>
> I recently switched from the Borland compiler to Visual C++ 5 compiler.
>
> I cannot for the life of me get any of the common controls to work when
> compiling under  VisualC 5 compiler. However they work fine under the
> Borland 5 compiler.
>
> My understanding is to get a common control you.
>
> 1) #include<commctrl.h>
> 2) InitCommonControls()
> 3) hProgWnd = CreateWindowEx(0, PROGRESS_CLASS,NULL,WS_CHILD |
> WS_VISIBLE,19,139,238,8,hDlg, (HMENU) 0,hInstance,NULL);
> or whichever control you want
>

what you are doing seems correct... are you sure your hDlg and hInstance are
valid?

> under MS Vc++5 "hProgWnd == NULL"  but the same code under Borland is fine.
>
> Do I not have flag set in the compiler? I added comdlg32.lib to the
> project/settings/link but this seems to make no difference.
>
> What am I doing WRONG.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> Warmest Regards Philip Huskisson.