@Neil

"Really, what do you expect of an API - for it to be so trivial that Windows developers can pick it up in 5 minutes?"

Spoken like an open-source jerkoff who's never spent more than five minutes in his life trying to write code to the Windows APIs. About which -- even if it is like bashing your own testicles repeatedly with a hammer, you at least have to respect the stubbornness and pain tolerance of somebody who can *do* that.