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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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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.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.