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I really have no idea what I am doing wrong, but I cannot seem to get Rev's windowID converted over to a HWND in an external.. I grabbed some really old code of mine that seems to have worked previously, but no longer works.. And using the same method I use writing Mac externals seems to fail as well..

my old way from the mac I include windows.h, stdlib.h and stdio.h ... Am I missing an include? Am I messing something up with one of the conversions? Do I need more sleep? Should I just forget about Windows?

If I remember correctly, I used the atoi() function and then casted it to HWND type using something akin to the following:

HWND hwnd = (HWND)atoi(p_arguments[0]);

atol() would probably work too but I don't think it needs to be a long integer.

EDIT: YES your includes are fine, YES you need more sleep and NO do not give up on windows!

I will give that a try.. and extra points for answering 3 of the 4 bonus questions

Looks like all the above do work, just the debugger from MS is a piece of garbage compared to Xcode..