ok I think MS over did it with the typedef deal its annoying HWND is a long int is it not...?
But I can't assign a HWND to a long...? and i can't make a conversion from HWND to char at least i haven't found away to yet... so how does one convert a HWND to a Char so that one might TextOut the HWND to a HDC yet another long ......

is there a place where i can find these answers with ease not MSDN it isn't there in any form i can find..... I'm headed to planet-source-code now maybe they have something....

Thanks