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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