Hi Vitaliy, I am having a go at the janitorial project of fixing certain compiler warnings suggested at http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerWarnings/. When the -Wwrite-strings flag is set, code like this: char *a = "string"; produces the message "warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type". Similarly, this: char *p = NULL; *p = "string"; produces the message "warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type". For internal simple string variables, the solution is to add the const keywork: const char *a = "string"; However, with structS , because it seems unwise to change elements of type char * to type const char *, I am changing the initializations or assignments to satisfy the pre-existing type. Thus, I have used code like char s[] = "string"; x.pszText = s; where x is the struct in question. Because I have had at least one patch like this accepted, I assumed what I was doing was OK. I guess another way of preventing this warning would be to use: x.pszText = (LPSTR) "string"; Assuming there is no danger in using this method, then it is neater for a single assignment. The array method may be better when the same text is assigned several times in the same function or file. If what I am doing is incorrect or not helpful, I would welcome advice to that effect. After all, I'm trying to make myself useful, not mess things up. Thanks, -- Andy.