>I thought that the LCK was included with the professional editional of 5.0. I've got basically the same stuff (make, c, c++, include files) I've had in the 2.6 LCK, but no help file. Maybe it's on the CD. I'll have to look.

It is. I don't think there even is a 'standard' version anymore. The functions are documented in the
standard FoxPro help file.

>As far as ActiveX, I think that you've got to take the good with the bad. Use what you have to and forget the rest. Certainly, FoxHWnd does have its own idiosyncracies. However, if you can deal with it, I believe that it does have some advantages. What would be better is to make the form's handle (and device context) properties, like VB does. I can't believe I just wrote that again, but it sure would solve problems like this one.

Sure. If I really need to I will use an OCX control. But especially in VFP updates are problematic,
so often times I just write my own or try to plug in at a lower level then call a standard DLL
from VFP instead.

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