excuse me for butting in here,
but you see i only call the messagebox() up only 1 time in my whole app (130000 lines). what i do i have a message class which i call up, which decides in return what to do. so i don't need to remember all those different arguments.

when it comes to the localization stuff: i agree with both of you. i've written a language class which not only translates on-the-fly, but users, with admin privilages, are able to add languages and add/change/delete existing language text strings and even add all caption/toolbartext/etc. strings to the language table automaticly, pretty much by the same architecture which has been described earlier in this thread.

I never use .h files (only when i am forced to by 3rd part apps, and even then i usually copy and paste the stuff i need into the my code).

there goes another 2 cents :-)

>Hi Walter,
>FWIW I agree with you as far as the localization goes.
>
>I do like .h files for parameters/arguments. I use the messagebox parameters constantly. I hate remembering that the "Yes/No" button option is ?, but I have no problem remembering "mb_YN". Do you have an argument with that usage? Or maybe another way to accomplish the same thing?