Im currently removing all the glut elements of an old opengl rubiks cube program I wrote. My problem is replacing the mouse callbacks (glutmotionfunc, glutpassivefunc etc) with windows equivalents, for instance vk_lmbutton etc dont seem to work could anybody help me out here cheers

You could get a good Win32 help file or reference of any kind and lookup messages:

WM_LBUTTONDOWN

WM_LBUTTONUP

WM_RBUTTONDOWN

WM_RBUTTONUP

WM_MOUSEMOVE

To use keys, you can check out:

WM_KEYDOWN

WM_KEYUP

WM_COMMAND (in combination with an accelerator)

Or check directly:

    #define KEYDOWN(vk_code) (GetAsyncKeyState(vk_code) & 0x8000)if (KEYDOWN(VK_UP)){   ...}    

(ps: Just wish we had a nice New Win32 Forum for problems like these )