Adam, 
        Your reply was a great help. I can now compile and run the program 
 without needing to delete the first line of the .rh file.  
  
 I change the following line from: 
 AM> RG>                GetMainWindow()->AssignMenu("EXITMENU"); 
  
 to your suggestion of: 
 AM>                    GetMainWindow()->AssignMenu(EXITMENU)      <- int 
 which works well. 
  
With the program which crashed when the dialog was called I did the same 
thing...remove the quotes.  
 
 AM> RG>class TMyWindow : public TWindow 
 AM> RG>{ 
 AM> RG>public: 
 AM> RG>        TMyWindow(Twindow* parent = 0); 
 AM> RG>        ~TMyWindow(); 
 AM> RG>protected: 
 AM> RG>        virtual void SetupWindow(); 
 AM> RG>        BOOL CanClose(); 
 AM> Isn't CanClose() public for TWindow? 
   
Yes it is. Tried to remove this line but the compiler complained that 
        BOOL TMyWindow::CanClose() is not a member of  TMyWindow 
so I changed the procedure to:  
        TWindow::CanClose()  
this ran but every time I closed a dialog box I got the "Do you want to  
close" message box I call in CanClose(). By declaring CanClose as part of 
TMyWindow I only get the Query box when I try to close the main window. 
 
  
 AM> RG>        void CmExit(); 
 AM> Delete the above function. By default CanClose is called on exit and 
 
I deleted this declaration and the procedure which had  
        SendMessage(WM_CLOSE) 
and as you suggested it worked well.  
 
Thanks for your help. Using OWL for programming windows is SLOWLY starting  
to make some sense but I guess it will take a while longer to actually  
understand what all the lines of code actually do.  
 
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