It would be my understanding that the different byte alignment would only apply to the functions within the scope of the #pragma statements.

You are right about the #pragma pack(push, X) statements

This link might also provide more information:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/e n-us/vccore/html/_core_.2f.zp.asp

Jigar,

I'll do my best to explain.  The "Struct Member Alignment" option in the C++ Code Generation section of the project properties tells the compiler how to pack the members of structures in memory based on byte boundries.

My application has this set to 1 byte.  While the default for Visual Studio apps is set to 8; which is also what the XTreme libraries are set to.  Passing data between 2 sets of code with different settings could cause memory corruption.

The #pragma pack(push, 8)  tells the compiler to use 8 byte alignment for any code following that statement.  In this case the XTreme Toolkit libs.  Then #pragma pack(pop) just restores the orignal setting (in my case 1 byte alignment) for the remainder of the code or until another #pragma or other instruction is encountered.  With these statements, any data passed to the XTreme Libs uses 8 byte alignment while the rest of my code uses 1 byte (I hope)

I'm neither a teacher or an expert, but I hope this helps.

A simplier soultion that works fine rather than recompile the CodeJock libraries was for me to add the following to my stdafx.h file

#pragma pack(push, 8)

#include <XTToolkitPro.h> // Xtreme Toolkit Pro component library

#pragma pack(pop)

Do you have standard structure package - 8?

I have discoved that if I try to use more than one CXTButton in any of my dialog box classes, my application will crash inside of XTPImageManager.cpp in the CXTPImageManagerIconHandle::IsEmpty() function.

I've also found out that if I try to use a CXTButton in a CView derived class, I get an assertion error when calling CXTButton::SetIcon() when the function SAFE_DELETE(m_pIcon) is called.  The code I use is similar to what I found in the Explorer GUI sample:

myheader file:

CImageList m_ilButton:

CXTButton m_addBtn;

my cpp file:

m_ilButton.Create(XT_IDB_BTN_OUT, 16, 1, RGB(255,0,255));

if (m_btnAdd.Create(NULL, WS_VISIBLE | BS_ICON | BS_OWNERDRAW | BS_CENTER | BS_VCENTER, CRect(0,0,0,0), this, IDC_BTN_CREATE))

{

m_btnAdd.SetIcon(CSize(16, 15), m_ilButton.ExtractIcon(2));

m_btnAdd.SetTheme(xtThemeDefault);

m_btnAdd.SetXButtonStyle(BS_XT_WINXP_COMPAT);

}

I added a watch to m_btnAdd.m_pIcon and it is NULL before I enter SetIcon(), but then once I'm into the CXTButton code it is no longer NULL.  I've tried increasing the application stack size but there is no difference, it still crashes.  Have I missed something obvious.  I'm using Visual Studio 2003.