Hi Rick,

>Here I disagree. If people don't understand C or the like it's unlikely
>the concept of pointers or structures (maybe - after all VB supports
>UDTs) is much of a help.

I don't think so. Grasping the basic concepts of structures is not as difficult, especially if you explain them in VFP terms. You can compare them to a record, or better, to a SCATTER object. And by providing a general struct class you can help people access structures the same way. In my experience, the most difficult part for VFP developers are data types. Once they understand this, the rest follows more easily.

And writing a C-DLL requires more than just knowledge about structures. You have to deal with a new tool, a comparatively complex tool, with another language, with new wizards, with things like exporting a function, with treatiung parameters (in a FLL), with calling conventions, etc. It's way easier for many people to read another programming language, then to write it.

Christof