Hi Christof,
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>>"Under the hood" stuff. Unfortunately, I think that, in general, the VFP community could use more of an understanding of the relationship between their VFP applications and the OS.
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>Yep. Do you volunteer? *bg*

No, I'm not.< s > I've been trying to reduce the amount of time I'm spending working with the computer in favor of other pursuits like family and playing classical guitar. I will say that a project is under way that will touch on this area, however. As of now, there is no timetable set for its eventually release.

>>If I were so hazard a WAG here (which might get me crucified, BTW) I'd guess that the VB community probably understands this subject much better than the VFP community.
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>I think so. Although I'm not sure whether this is because you need API functions in VB where VFP has this feature built in. For example, to display a printer selection or file open dialog, we can issue GETPRINTER() or GETFILE(), in VB you have to use the API or the CommonDialog control.

I'm not sure. Perhaps some of the reasons may stretch back all the way to QB. I don't know.