lectricpharaoh

I have no idea if this will help, but on the chance it may, this is a page I stumbled across while seeking unrelated information. It's C++ using the Win32 API, but you might (or might not) be able to adapt some of it.

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A man's knowledge is like an expanding sphere, the surface corresponding to the boundary between the known and the unknown. As the sphere grows, so does its surface; the more a man learns, the more he realizes how much he does not know. Hence, the most ignorant man thinks he knows it all. - L. Sprague de Camp