Dear Paul McKenzie

Thank you for this information! I use VC6.0 with the brand-new service pack (I do not remember the number).

Using enums would be a solution, but may I ask one more question about using enums: Is it safe to assume that enums are int? Will this be safe to assume in future compiler versions? Or should I cast the enum to int everytime I assign or pass an enum to/as an int?

Thank you

Oliver.