>> I think that part of the problem with me is I dont always get what they mean in the API references. After looking at the SetErrorMode() API call in The WIN32 API bible and in the .hlp file I am still a little unsure just where do we get the 0 and the 1 from. Am I staring right at it? Possibly overlooking the obvious. I see the 'SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS' type parameters and I dont know how to acces that or how that is equivelent to a 1 or 0.
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>Yep, Forest & Trees... (s) Who cares how you get 0 or 1 just use them! You can spend hours looking in MS Constant files. Since it is your code in a VFP program I do not think being 100% MS syntatically correct is a promary concern (g). Yes I agree that following the syntax as close as possible is wise. And yes sometimes I go crazy too trying to figure out where to find that stuff. Draw the line when it comes to how much time it will take! (s)
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you can find all the constants in .H files that comes with C++
pakages such as MSVC and Borland C++
(usually a grep command on the .H yields the correct value)

for some reason MS decided not to ship such/those files with VFP

Arnon