This definately goes in the "you have got to be kidding me" pile.

Seriously, do you know how say, a spreadsheet program is implemented? You don't think it has one editbox per grid cell do you?! Hell No! It uses tricks to make you think that it does. You simply need to learn the same kind of tricks.

Quote:Original post by doanwon
thanks...

you are right, what I am trying to do is not what the OS was desined for.

I think I need to write my own OS for what I am doing.

(edited) It's serious! Not intend to make you spill cofee.

No offense intended, but do you understand what you wrote? You want to write another OS because Windows can't handle more than the 10K controls of your program?

Are you really serious? Are you really ready to spend 5 years to write a complete graphical OS just to be able to create 10k+ controls in ONE program?

Can't you just find another scheme to store your controls? You are obviously not displaying 10k controls (that would be a massive and unusable UI), so why can't you just find a way to create the controls you need when you need them, and destroy those which are no more visible?

UI objects are used to display controls, not to search or do whatever you want with them. They are a way to interact with a user. I personnally think you misunderstood something about UI programming - and I mean, something quite serious.