Seems that Nero 7.0 has a problem with certain DVD drives using Light Scribe technology and that the LG drive I have in particular.  I am at an impass, I have Nero 7.0 ultra edition and it generates an "Internal Error" when attempting to print using Light Scribe.  LG provided a dumbed down version of Nero that according to posts I've read may or may not work so I've opted not to uninstall the ultra.

The RichText Control is a lightweight control that can be seamleesly integrated into your application to provide a rich set of features that rival those of a control you would have to pay for. Among its many features this control allows the user to insert single or multiple images, open and save files in either raw or rich text formats and maintains a transparent background allowing the developer to add background content including images.

The Clipboard class uses global memory to store and retrieve data during cut, copy and paste operations and when dragging and dropping files. It accomplishes this by storing data pertaining to the object in fragments with various formats to represent different aspects of the data being acted upon. Windows provides a hook for anyone interested in intercepting data from the Clipboard by allowing us to add ourself to a chain or linked list of listeners. The only thing we need to do here is to relay the data passed to us to the next listener in the chain. Don't break the chain or you'll be dancing on thin ice! i.e. unpredictable things can happen.

I'm not going to go knee deep into explaining graphics, GDI+ or even gradients, instead I'm going to give a brief overview for each of the important concepts then I'll move on and and get into how to create the gradients that you see/have seen in this article. A lot of them were easy, some I stumbled on and some I really had to scratch my head and just try different things but overall I've managed to create some pretty nice graphics and you can too. First thing we need to do is get a basic understanding of the concepts, so this first section is devoted to that.

Need a way to visually design some impressive controls quickly? The idea was to make it simple and fast to create a control that would attach itself to a windows control and show/hide contents by expanding and collapsing. I started out trying to add a header to ListBox control and found that I couldn't get it to do what I wanted so I proceded to write a generic header that you could associate with any windows control. I kept adding functionallity to it to make it truly generic and this is what I ended up with. The ExtendedHeaderControl allows you to; dock your Header to a windows control such as a ListBox. Dock a Footer control to a windows control and have it follow the control when animating. Define custom corners (Ear Adornments) for the Header and Footer controls. Add Images, select borders, add Text, and configure Background color either solid or Gradient.