>>>The current app i'm working on involves calling several dlls written in C++.
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>>>These C functions operate on some files/directories created by the VFP program. Within the C program the user may select some or all of these files. After the C program processes these there are new files/directories created. We need to inform VFP what these are. There may be pre-existing files/directories that were processed earlier. We need the ability to inform VFP of the files/directories that were just processed.

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>this program then does its stuff independantly from VFP.
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>I'm unclear how using c++ to return a structure would work

I thought u were calling the C++ routine from a program and waiting for its output, thus I assumed u can create a struct where you list all the directories and files created and return this to foxpro
have foxpro take the resulting string and extract the data out

what exactly are u trying to do?

Arnon