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As promised, I'm posting back my results. Turned out the user didn't desire a text print out but settled on the text file output version and wished more interface options where the output box...

Incredibly, I fired up mirc and spy++ and you are right, mirc uses a static window on what appears to be a mdi frame. The names panels are listboxes, small edit window for input, static window for...

After reading what you wrote and looking up some examples of SetWindowText on edits, I was thinking maybe I can continue using TextOut or DrawText while the window is at the top of the z pos but if...

Yes blting it back, I was being funny and I looked into that earlier last night and it's not worth the performance hit.

Yes SetWindowText, I used that and the flicker was so horrible it was...

Right, I'm going to have to keep it in a buffer but the problem is, non of the EM_GETLINE or any of the EM counting things work as it's seen as 1 big line of text I guess.

Ok, set the text...

Right I added \r\n to the end of the buffer and tried DrawTextA with DT_WORDBREAK, it formats just fine but no scroll.

However, I'm about to pull my hair out with this thing, it's been 4 days now...

thank you kindly and I just found out I misspelled my name upon registering. Looks like it's gonna be a long day...

I've got a read only edit box I'm using to out put some data too using TextOutA and I created the window with WS_VSCROLL and ES_AUTOVSCROLL styles along with read only. However, once my output hits...

No real easy way to tell which process has a lock on a file in the API, most of it is undocumented.

There are tools like Unlocker for one, great app and right click tells you info on it, namley...