ah, you have a point there. but is there any way to make qb64 "itself" take on your loop?

obviously, things like getmouse and inkey$ need to be in a loop to be useful, but they don't typically need to be in a loop until theinput=0, you know?

don't think i'm not happy with _mousex _mousey and _mousebutton, i am. it's so much nicer than learning asm. i just think it could be better, and you're still changing it, so i thought i'd mention it for the sake of that thing we both care about, the basicness of basic.