The updates were COMCTL32.OCX and MSCOMCTL.OCX. They made a big difference - I knew it immediately - and was so very happy!

The neat thing about learning those guys is they forced me to become a real object developer. Before that I wrote what looked like object code - but I did not think in object terms. And - since it's a "node" container the experience made me comfortable with other more complex containers - like XML and Document Objects.

Of course the best source for OOP discipline is the UT! It's a veritable "boot camp" of take no prisoner "shock and awe" gurus. You haven't had a good thrashing until VFP Jedi Marcia has humbled you with her "helpful" critiques!:-) May the force be with us!

>Hi Terry,
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>I found 31 file on my computer starting with comctl. I see different versions dll in various places. One of them has version 6.0.2600.0.
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>I don't think I used ImageList or ListView in my applications. I think I used it once when I played with Frank Dietrich (?) library and prepared my form for selecting files (but at the end I didn't use ListView/ImageView, but rather grid with images using the aforementioned library).
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>Anyway, good luck!
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>>Naomi,
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>>I found an update for OCX SP6. "Search" your system drive for "comctl". THe dates prpbably go back to 1998 - 2000. Those controls had leaks - and if everything was not in balance or we made a small programming error - they were unforgiving - crashed the sytem and in some cases junked memory. They're very tedious little rascals.
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>>The problem is not VFP 5 it is the old OCX SP 6 we have been using. THere is an update for April 2005 - a big secret see message#1167905.
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>>I think MS has been managing these leaks from inside VFP. My VFP 8,7,6 projects with their succesive code-work-arounds at leased allowed the listview column reorder to work. They (column reorder) crashed VFP5 without a glimmer of hope!
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>>Strange that a flawed OCX would work in subsequent versions of VFP - almost as if the VFP upgrades attempted to correct the flaws in OCX (SP-6).
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>>The updatefixed all my VFP 5 issues - and all the controls in my projects that use imagelist have cleaner sharper images.
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>>It's a big deal. I saw and experienced a difference right away. My hope is that I can make a coding mistake - and with the new OCX - will not have to deal with a C00005 crash. Hopefully this updates means that VFP will catch the OCX errors before Windows has to!
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>>Later Gator!