>> can a context belong to more than one process?
Why would you want it to? The context of a process is it's state at any given time. If two processes shared the same context then they would...

>> typedef struct Dictionary* DictionaryRef;
I don't like hiding pointers with typedef. It's confusing to readers and maintenance programmers. You would be better off just using Dictionary *.

>>...

By its definition, the postfix increment operator has to use temporary storage so that it can return the pre-incremented value. You can think of it like this:

operator++
temp = self;
self =...

In general, no.

I'm sorry you feel that way. You can go elsewhere and you probably won't be missed. To answer your increasingly rude question, I would probably use a combination of Visual Basic for the user...

>>So much for Daniweb. Does anyone have at least a better forum I can go to?
What do you mean "So much for Daniweb"? Do you have any idea how large and complex an application like this would be? I...