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Saying "Hello World!" with VFP and WinAPI

Before you begin:

A hello world program is a frequently used programming example, usually designed to show the easiest possible application on a system that can actually do something (i.e. print a line that says "Hello World").

This message is great to start a day with!

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Code:

#DEFINE STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE -11

DECLARE INTEGER AllocConsole IN kernel32
DECLARE INTEGER GetConsoleWindow IN kernel32
DECLARE INTEGER GetStdHandle IN kernel32 LONG nStdHandle

DECLARE INTEGER ShowWindow IN user32 AS ShowWindowA;
	INTEGER hWindow, INTEGER nCmdShow

DECLARE INTEGER WriteConsole IN kernel32;
	INTEGER hConsoleOutput, STRING @lpBuffer,;
	INTEGER nCharsToWrite, INTEGER lpCharsWritten,;
	INTEGER lpReserved

= AllocConsole()
= ShowWindowA(GetConsoleWindow(), 1)
= WriteConsole(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), "Hello World!", 12,0,0)  

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Listed functions:

AllocConsole
GetConsoleWindow
GetStdHandle
ShowWindow
WriteConsole

Comment:

The original hello-world program in the Windows 1.0 SDK was a bit of a scandal. HELLO.C was about 150 lines long, and the HELLO.RC resource script had another 20 or so more lines. (...) Veteran C programmers often curled up in horror or laughter when encountering the Windows hello-world program.*

® Charles Petzold, Programming Microsoft Windows with C#

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What could be easier of that?

? "Hello World!"

or this

DEFINE WINDOW helloworld FROM 10,10 TO 20,50 SYSTEM CLOSE  
ACTIVATE WINDOW helloworld  
? "Hello World!"

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Find more than 20 different ways of saying Hello World on FoxPro Wiki.
Read about Hello World program in Wikipedia.

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