>>>>>>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.
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>Hi Chuck,
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>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.

Since CreateWindow() works in the context of a module of a process, he'd have to attach it to -some- process that didn't terminate when VFP did. I agree that CreateWindow() here is the wrong choice of call to create a window with persistence beyond that of the application itself, especially since the API spec defines it as wither an overlapped, pop-up or child window, always in the context of a process and module.