Yes, Rick and all who replied, thanks. It wasn't so much the missing :: but
many object addresses needed to be followed by ADDR in my code. It took a
while weeding out the probs, but all works well now.

Bob

> 3. Object compilation grew more complicated. Any reference to a
> windows api call while defining an object must be preceeded by
> a double-colon escape operator. For instance,
>
> CLASS FOO
> : TEST ( -- ) 0 Z" Test" Z" Box" MB_OK :: MessageBox DROP ;
> END-CLASS
>
> This is why your code doesn't work.
>

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