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Why do none of the windows api functions return them then?
They return handles instead of pointers, which basically hold an id for a resource that is stored by the system and you have to use that id instead of a pointer because windows doesn't want you messing around with it (free'ing it, modifying it, etc.).
[edited by - brassfish89 on November 16, 2003 7:14:30 PM]
