>Hi Larry,
>
>Excuse me for jumping in, but this week you saved my day too, when you helped teaching me how to use structures as parameters in some win2K API calls. Do you know if there is some reason why Microsoft VFP team doesn't implement structures like VB has, and put an end at this misery of VFP programmers having to use all kind of detours to acomplish these tasks?>
>Regards,
>
>Fernando

FWIW, this has been on my list for a while now. I put it on the VFP 7 Wishlist.

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I don't we're going to get it anytime soon because of the variant nature of VFP's memory variables. Structures need to exist in a contiguous memory space. Because all variables are variants, exact memory space can not be allocated for those variables. Variables get moved around as the value changes and more/less space is needed.

When VFP actually implements strong typing for variables (VFP 7 only has it for Intellisense and Type Library purposes), we'll probably get it. JMO.

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