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From: | Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Windows GUI Programming with DJGPP |
Date: | 30 May 2005 17:08:42 GMT |
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PaulCsouls <paulcsouls AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> wrote: > Why do we need the windows API? Because it's the way Windows32 programs have to use to talk to the OS. As the saying goes: "While in Rome, do as the Romans do." > Isn't it possible to create, buttons, menus and windows controlled > by a mouse without it? Not really --- you need some access to the graphics hardware, and at least under modern, NT-based versions of Windows, the OS won't let your program put its dirty fingers on that other than through an intermediary layer. That's exactly the Win32 API. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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