Hi Darin,

 > Ah, but there _IS_ such a thing.  Unfortunately, it's
 > in C++.  :-)

    Grins sheepishly - yes. There's a Microsoft guide to Windows
Programming, that should be part of the set. I appear to have lost mine. No
wonder I couldn't get going.

 > See: MFC (MS), OWL (Borland), ICLUI/OCL (IBM) (they're
 > the same thing, just different names), ... and tons of
 > others.

    I have MFC. I wasn't too enlightened by that, but I'll revisit. My main
problem with it is me. I am just intolerant of time-wasting rubbish, and I
cannot convince myself that hungarian notation isn't the absolute
incarnation of time-wasting rubbish.

 > However, I'll leave it at that before someone accuses
 > me of showing a C++ bias again.  :-)

    That was because you initialised a list of variables at the time you
declared them. You can't do that in C. You have to declare them all first,
then initialise them. That is one place where C++ differs from C.

Cheers,
Bill.

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