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From: | PaulCsouls <paulcsouls AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Windows GUI Programming with DJGPP |
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Date: | Mon, 30 May 2005 18:20:27 GMT |
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On 30 May 2005 17:08:42 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote: >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. I though Allegro would work. I haven't tried but I thought it could work with the mouse. Paul C
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