Hi, everyone im new to this forum and i have a project for school, what i need is how to make a desktop like windows with a start menu, and how do i make the icons move and be able to move them, i know you have to us a listbox but i just dont know how to us it to make a desktop i gess what im asking for is how to make a fake operating system, should i us visual basic 6.0 for this or c++ i only know how to us visual basic 6.0 just starting it so im a newbe, i know the basics, and i when to planet sourc code and foun a some but know of them have what im looking for, this just a project i need for school so please help me just to get started thanks all four your help.

Welcome to the A1vbcode.

What do you mean by make a desktop with a start menu and have moving icons? Plus we don't do school projects for you we only help out with problems you may have.

Keith

http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=34182&lngWId=1just like a operating system but fake here is a zip file that i found on planet source code all i did was type operating system but the ones im lookin for are nothere but this one has what i want but the problum is that i dont know how to put it in my code. This file has desktop and menu and you can add programms to the desktop and add new ones, please take a look at the souce thanks.

The Windows Desktop is actually a ListView control, so start there.

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