>george,
>now i'm drowned by all the api stuff. reminds myself of the saying 'careful what you wish you just might get it'. thanks, i really wanted to see the available win32api calls and use them with vfp.
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>ramil 3/14

Depending on the version of Windows, there are 2,000 plus API calls. There are some things that there's no way for VFP to do. Any function requiring that one of the parameters be the address of a "callback" function are flat out. Structures with embedded pointers as members are completely out of the question, but are very difficult to deal with. Both Ed Rauh and Christof Lange have utilities that deal with this that are available for download here. There may be other things (like the iShellLink object) that you'd have to write a wrapper in another language for.

If you're interested in learning about the API, it's a good idea to have, at least, a working knowledge of VB. Many examples in the MS KB are written in it. It's also a good idea to be on "speaking terms" with C++. By this I mean that you can understand the declarations in either the MSDN Library or Platform SDK. They're written as C++.