>I have to agree with Vlad for a number of reasons. First and foremost is that I don't think that VB could process the message correctly anyway. I did, however, come across another reason. Before getting to that, I should point out that I have used SendMessage() from FPW using HWND_BROADCAST to cause open windows to reload a portion of the WIN.INI file with success.

VB has to process the message correctly because it is a standard Windows message. If VB fails on SendMessage... nothing works. The problem would be with sending a pointer to a char string, because the string is in VFP's memory space, so, it's address/pointer is in VFP's memory space. VB should not be able to address that memory.

Vlad