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I used Smartupdate to get version 3.94. I found that for the editor the Dutch language support disappeared, but for visual designer it still works. Did I miss something or did something went wrong?

I'm sorry I don't have the time to update Comlib. I will publish the source here so you can improve it. I'm somehow very sure that you will! :wink:
Good luck to you...

Enumeration
#CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER = 1
#CLSCTX_INPROC_HANDLER = 2
#CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER = 4
#CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER = 16 ...

@Shanara: If you look at test_ado.pb you'll find explenation about COMLIB including an example to work with it. See the code below.

; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; This is a demo program to demonstrate the use of COM from ...

COMLIB is a library to work with COM from PureBasic. You can find the previous version - including documentation - at http://home.planet.nl/~aXend/purebasic/COMLIB_demo.zip or at PureArea.Net. You can find discussions about it elsewhere on this forum.

I have updated COMLIB to work with PB 3.93. You can download it from http://home.planet.nl/~aXend/purebasic/COMLIB_393.zip.
Good luck to you all.

The updated version can be downloaded from http://home.planet.nl/~aXend/purebasic/COMLIB_393.zip.

Code updated For 5.20+

@Leo: I also found that CreateObject() doesn't work in all situations. I'm looking into it as soon as I have the time.
@Blade: You can use the following include file with all the variant types.

; All kind of constants and structures needed to work with the VARIANT type ...

Thanks Sparkie for this information. I was struggling with the layout of ListViewGadget myself and your example did it. :D
I wonder why something like this isn't mentioned in the Helpfile of PB. Even the option to add flags is not mentioned. Your example made me look in the Win32 helpfile to ...

It could be one of the libraries you've added that contains something like that. I don't know which one. I don't have this problem with PB 3.92. Maybe you could remove all your additional libraries and try again? By adding them one by one you could find the error. I'm just guessing...

Thanks Fred and the PureBasic team.
I'm very pleased with the continuing improvement of PureBasic. The seamless upgrade possibilities with SmartUpdater are great!
I specially like the "pure version" of the calender and date gadgets.

You were absolutely right Sparkie. That was it. I didn't know I was running a custom theme, I only changed the color of the background. I changed it back to XP theme, chose the same background again and changed the color again, but now it's all OK.
Thanks for your help.

When I use a menu I find that by dragging the mouse over a menu item it is selected (white) but when I select another menu item the previous one stays selected. By dragging the mouse over all the menu items I get an ugly white/gray menybar. I thought it might be a Windows "feature". It is the same ...

The strings are allocated by the lib, but you should free memory after use. BTW I think this is "native" PB support and COM wants pointers to Unicode instead of the Unicode strings.

You could download COMLIB at http://home.planet.nl/~aXend/purebasic/COMLIB_demo.zip .

COMLIB is a small library that contains 4 procedures:
- CreateObject(ProgID.s) - creates an object from a ProgID, just like VB does
- ReleaseObject(Object.l) - release the object
- Uni2Ansi(Unicode.l ...

Thanks again, now it works!
Strange though, I tried SleepEx_() too, but that resulted in hanging the system. I'm not sure if I understand the explanation completely. I'm new to this kind of processing. I'll continue my exploration....