I created that test project to test for exactly that - I thought there might some other stuff in my program so I wrote a quick test program to test it.

That code that you see there is all I wrote,...

I am starting some threads using AfxBeginThread and they work by monitoring a flag (sent via lParam) and once they find the flag is set, they return. However, once they do return, they aren't deleted...

I resolved my problems by getting rid of SubclassDlgItem and following this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/bb931337.aspx

Thank you all for your replies.

Thank you for the reply but someone already suggested that.

Still looking for help on my last post.

I understand a bit more after experimenting and looking at sample code. However, I'm still having a few problems and would really appreciate any help.

In this article:...

I'm using Visual Studio 2008.

Thank you for the link. I actually forgot the article uses provided source code, so I can look at exactly how they did it.

I'm having some of trouble understanding exactly how an MFC GUI works.

What is the resource file for and exactly how does it relate to the classes you create (e.g. the subclass of CDialog)?
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I'm kind of new to Windows programming, especially GUI programming, and have searched for over an hour on how I can easily do this. I don't want any third party software and was wondering if I could...