scott wrote:
>> The hard part is figuring out how to draw the graphics on screen
> 
> Choose a language / IDE / API that gives you easy access to graphics?

Does one exist?

>> Usually you have to mutilate your program to fit the window manager's 
>> event loop...
> 
> Don't see how, if you have written functions like:
> MouseClicked(int xpixel , int ypixel)
> RedrawScreen()
> etc.

Typically you have to register callbacks with the GUI system, and then 
call a "main loop" function which calls your callbacks when it feels 
like it. Which is great if you just want something to happen when the 
user presses a button, but becomes problematic if you want things to 
happen while the user isn't pressing anything. (E.g., if you wanted to 
do something compute-bound, now the GUI stops responding until the 
compute task finishes.)

> BTW why don't you just do a text based version?

Because that wouldn't be very exciting?

What I'd really like to have a go at is Mahjong... but that would be 
absurdly hard.

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