>>>>>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.
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>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.

Hi Chuck,

Well, I don't think you'll be able to do it in VFP using API calls. You'll be creating a window that's owned by your application, and will close when it does (like the debugged or the help file does) In order for this to be done I think you'd need to write either a separate app in VFP or another language. That way, they'd be independent.