To correct this anonymous poster above, you can get into the windows messaging loop through subclassing (don''t have the actual code though, only know that it works), you can get millisecond timing through the timeGetTime() function (perfect for timing in games etc.) and there is full support for hardware in VB and DX7 (why wouldn''t hardware GUID''s work?). The only problem seems to be non-primary display devices sometimes.

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Daniel Netz, Sentinel Design
"I'm not stupid, I'm from Sweden" - Unknown