Bill,
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>>Not for a moment. The most fun (not to mention frustration) I've had recently
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>these two seem to go together.

When it comes to the API, yeppers< g >.

>>was writing Obj2Bmp.
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>What does it do?

It's a developer's tool. A small app that you run from the command window. You simply run a form (or instantiate it from its class), then run the app. It produces a modeless dialog, that allows you to select any object on the form (or the form itself) from a treeview. It can then create an exact 16, 256 or 24 bit color bitmap of the object or form.

>>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.
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>This is the type, class member and whanot listing as you type feature right?

Yep!

Very cool stuff. I liked it in VB.

I've personally always liked the VB editor (and before it the QB editor). Automatic expansion of keyword abbreviations, spaces the argument list to functions out, spaces arithmetic equations out, etc. I hope that'll be in the next version, but I don't know for sure.

>What I really thought was great about the editor were things like column selects, and regexp support in the find feature. Just felt nice to have these gadgets. the editor 'e' has them, but I only have used the dos version, it didn't port to windows very well I have been told. so I only use it for, well column selects, and regexp search and replace *bg*

It's wonderful, and if all these sorts of features are included in the next version, folks will wonder how they ever got along without them.

>>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 >.
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>hehe I know how that feels. I finally started reading the VC++6 programmer's guide--my wife bought it for me for xmas last year, but everything else pushed it aside. I used the O'reilly book Practical C++ programming three or four years ago to learn the language (I used Turbo c++ 4 under win3.1).
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>That is what kicked off my current career in computing (I had pascal, basic, and C classes in High School but that was a long time ago), even though I never worked with C++, it got me into everything else. And I think its good to know, like for reading the API.

I didn't study C++ in college (it didn't exist). We used Pascal. However, I've always thought that the jump between the two wasn't all that great. I found I could pick up the C/C++ declarations rather easily because of it.

>Anyway, I am digressing. :)

So am I< g >.

Later to you,