>Hello George and Ed
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>Thanks for your quick responses to my problem. Is there a place (help file or book) where use of the API in VFP is explained and presented in an organized way to be able to enable me to look up this sort of material my own?
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The best resource on the API is the MSDN, but it isn't targeted at the VFP marketplace. There's a tremendous book for VB Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API by Dan Appleman; it's clear, covers a lot, and the syntax is fairly close to VFP - it's probably less of a jump to translate VB to VFP code than C to VFP if you don't know the language. Another book that I rely on is Windows NT Win32 API SuperBible by Richard Simon, but it's targeted at C programmers. The Windows 98 Developer's Handbook is another good source, but all C-centric.

George has written a FAQ that's available here on UT; unfortunately, it can't come close to covering everything you need to know in order to use the API completely (you can write books on it, and several non-VFP people have!)

If I could only get one source, I'd go for the MSDN CDs.