>I have seen VFP applications where the click event of a control brings up mail client message window with the "to" address filled in. How is this done? TIA

John,
You can use the ShellExecute API call to do this.

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN Shell.DLL INTEGER nHandle, STRING@ cOperation ;
     STRING@ cFile, STRING@ cParms, STRING@ cPath, INTEGER nShow

lnReturn = ShellExecute( 0, "open", "mailto:name@domain.com", "", "", 9)

If lnReturn is greater than 32, it was successful.