You're not wrong that win32 is very verbose. > A loop is required for correctness for most (but not all) Win32 calls that return dynamic data... A very good p

You're not wrong that win32 is very verbose. > A loop is required for correctness for most (but not all) Win32 calls that return dynamic data... A very good point, one very rarely mentioned. Of course, the win32 windowing and common controls and single threaded, so if it's the same application it won't have changed underneath you.