Bill,
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>>I don't think of the stuff I've done with the API in any sort of a different light than the stuff I do with nothing but VFP. In the long run, I end up >learning more about Windows and how it operates. That's helps me run down problems and overall produce better applications.
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>And don't forget fun too! :)

Not for a moment. The most fun (not to mention frustration) I've had recently was writing Obj2Bmp. Quite frankly, I didn't know if I could do it when I started, and am quite surprised that I did it.:-)

>You're right though. They are all pieces of the same puzzle IMO, so I enjoy all of it. Sometimes the solution to a problem in one domain leads you through others. By looking at it simply as a VFP problem, you can limit yourself I think, but looking at it as all one system like you stated leaves the possibilities wide open to how to find answers.
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>I have worked more with C++ these past two weeks than I have in years because I wanted to find this answer, and its paying off in other things unrelated to this that I am working on (like learning the VC++6 environment, it has a great text editor BTW, I wish they'd put it in VFP7). So its all good. *s*

From what I've heard (from John Koziol who saw it demoed at DevCon), the version of Intellisense that you see in VC++ 6.0 is on steriods in the next version of VFP.

I've been reading "Beginning C++" now for almost two years. BTW, the version is 4.0 so once again, I'm behind the curve< g >.

>As always, its nice chatting with you. I will post a followup in this thread if I find anything interesting about the printers.

Same here, Bill.