failed to create empty document

Your program is a 32 bit program (Win95, VC++4.0) that cannot run under Win3.11. Or is there something you didn't told us?

I use win32s on Win 3.11 !!!!
I have developed already programms with VC++ 4.0 and they
run under Win3.11 without problems.

Please let us have a look at some code (e.g. InitInstance).

Here the following code:
The application consist of an CFormView and some CDialogs which
are called from the menu or with buttons from the CFormView dialog resource. Is it possible that there is a connection between the error and the MAINFRAME menu configuration?

BOOL CMessungApp::InitInstance()
{
      // Standard initialization
      // If you are not using these features and wish to reduce the size
      //  of your final executable, you should remove from the following
      //  the specific initialization routines you do not need.

      CFrameWnd* pFrame = NULL;

      SetRegistryKey("Messung und Sortierung");

      LoadStdProfileSettings();  // Load standard INI file options (including MRU)

      // Register the application's document templates.  Document templates
      //  serve as the connection between documents, frame windows and views.

      CSingleDocTemplate* pDocTemplate;
      pDocTemplate = new CSingleDocTemplate(
            IDR_MAINFRAME,
            RUNTIME_CLASS(CMessungDoc),
            RUNTIME_CLASS(CMainFrame),       // main SDI frame window
            RUNTIME_CLASS(CMessungView));
      AddDocTemplate(pDocTemplate);

      // Parse command line for standard shell commands, DDE, file open
      CCommandLineInfo cmdInfo;
      
      ParseCommandLine(cmdInfo);

      // Dispatch commands specified on the command line
         if (!ProcessShellCommand(cmdInfo))
            return FALSE;
       
        // ProcessShellCommand() return FALSE ??!!!
        // after displaying "failed to create empty document"        

      OpenDocumentFile("messung.dat");
      
      return TRUE;
}

Maybe your error has something to do with this line:

CFrameWnd* pFrame = NULL;

In my projects there are this lines that create the main frame window.

CMainFrame* pMainFrame = new CMainFrame;
if (!pMainFrame->LoadFrame(IDR_MAINFRAME))
     return FALSE;
m_pMainWnd = pMainFrame;

Try to create a new project with appwizzard and compare the InitInstance() with the one you have.

Sorry, but I tried it, and I get the same output.
But now I have found the failure !!!!!

I use a CFormView with an attached dialog, and in the dialog
there was an TextItem and I have enabled the Static edge in the
Extended Styles. This works only on win95.

Normaly a message appears that an unsupported component was found.
But in this case it does not !! ???

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