>>>>What is a "HINSTANCE hinst" and how do I get a value for it?
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>>>An HINSTANCE is a handle instance - it's a 4 byte DWORD.
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>>>What are you trying to provide a handle to? IOW, what API call are you rying to invoke?)
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>>I am tring to call the createwindow api but I can't seem to get it to work.
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>Hiya Chuck,
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>Far be it for me (of all people) to suggest a VFP solution over the API, but what's wrong with oMyForm = CREATEOBJECT('Form'). You don't have to deal with it then, and you'll have much more control over it.

I want a window that is not tied to my application so when it closes it will still be up on the window. But so far my createwindow only returns 0.