>hi gang,
>
>I'm trying to get rid of the default report preview caption
>(Report designer - somereport.frx)
>After issuing SetWindowText(whandle, 'newcaption') for a window
>created by VFP, 'newcaption' becomes the new caption for the
>specified window as it should - but - it doesn't show up on screen.
>I tried altering the VFP desktop caption the same way and it only changed the caption on taskbar. I can change the caption for *every* other window - so it must be a VFP 3 problem. Or am I missing something here?

I don't think that this is so much VFP as it is Windows. The Report Designer is a child window. While you can retrieve its handle, neither SetWindowText nor GetWindowText work. The latter works with external parent windows, but not with children.

George