Quote: "A couple of things I found tho, opening up a new text doc while having a current tab creates a new tab AND renames the old (bug?)"
yup

found that RIGHT after I posted this, and added it to it right before the screen shot
Quote: "The text line numbering seemed to work but only did 18 lines at a time (optimisation?)"
yup, but, I scrapped that Textbox, as I didn't make it, and it wasn't working like it should

so I'm making another, it should be working today
Quote: "Virtually none of the menu options worked except for Open, Exit & New. disappointingly not even Cut/Paste worked although they all LOOKED great (you used an application template of some kind?)."
haha, yeah, they don't work, I'm just trying to get the very basics done, and so new/save/open and getting the actual textbox working is more important than the others.
But since I started this thread, I've started development over, making the code more clean and readable, as I will be making this OS in the end

and I'm trying to make things to look just like you want (move toolbars anywere, even on the sides if you want, and a bunch of little things

)
Quote: "(you used an application template of some kind?)."
Visual Studio 2005 will now add the most used setup for the toolbars and main menus

it's NICE, no need to search for button images and stuff now
Quote: "Sounds like you want the GetFirstCharIndexFromLine(int lineNumber) method."
I'm so glad that you wrote that and I read it twice

at first i thought you wrote something different, and didn't think it was what I wanted, but YAY!
thank you so much, makes things so clean!