I tapught about that. The problem is that ma application has maybe 100 views or screens, and I want beautiful code, not a quick hack. Whatever would force me to spend lots of time working like a robot is not a great idea. I may capture all invokation of message boxes and dialog boxes, but as I (or someone else) maintain my applicatio, I am scared to "forget" about it. If I could use WIN32 to tell me is a messagebox is up and running, I write once and can rely on that no matter how my stuff is written, putting the logic in a base-class somewhere.

No, C++ is not a type-safe language. It has better type-safety as ANSI-C does, but that's the begin and that end of it. Example: int eBool; bool bBool; enum { FALSE, TRUE } eBool; eBool = bBool = eBool = 1u; Where is that type-safe?