Actually, I got away with the following...

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Thanks for the help... (both Frank's) 

I still got an error when trying just a strait 

HDC hDevice = (long) m_pChartFX->PaintInfo(CPI_GETDC); 

but if I assigned it to a temp variable first, then it worked OK: 

 HDC hDevice; 

 long templong; 

 testlong = (long)m_pChartFX->PaintInfo(CPI_GETDC); 

 hDevice = (HDC)testlong; 

Thanks!!! 

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Joshua Eanes