>Hi Sergey
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>>It's VFP bug. DECLARE clears previous declarations for the function with aliases if DECLARE w/o alias issued. To work around it, you have to do DECLARE w/o aliases first.
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>Meaning, I can do declares later in code and can use aliases?
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>DECLARE getforegroundwindow ...
>DECLARE getforegroundwindow AS _getforegroundwindow ...
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>so now I can retain _getforegroundwindow even if some class (like this statusbar) defines getforegroundwindow again?

Yes.