I currently now have Visual C++ installed again on my office computer (in German), but not MSDN. My German Visual C++ gives all the errors in German and I cant understand it.

I would like to construct a CPen object with square ends.

Could some kind sole out there possibly show me an example code of how to construct a CPen object that will draw square ended lines rather than round ended lines.

Use ExtCreatePen(..) and put ( PS_GEOMETRIC | PS_ENDCAP_SQUARE) as first parameter.

Thank you for the information. I managed last night to find an english version of MS Visual C++ and so I could see what the exceptions were all about. Just one point, it looked like if you didnt specify PS_GEOMETRIC it would default to PS_COMESTIC and any line width greater than 1 would then throw an exception.

Anyway got it to work and thanks for the advice.
Regards
Dominic

Now back to the German Visual C++ at work, Got im Hemel !