Novic programmer need help

ok im pretty novice at C programming.

my questions are:
1. i want to check the color at some pixel.
i tought of using graphics.h getpixel yet it only suppoets 16 colors
while i need 32 million colors.
and in how do i check for the color in hexa?
so someone told me to use windows.h win32 api
yet i cant manage to find a good working library anywhere and i dont know how to use the commands in there.
2. second question: how do i send keystrokes or mousestrokes into a certain program?
3. who do i monitor keystrokes, meanning i want to know whether someone is pressing the Enter button (but not in my program but while running another program and mine is in the background).

i really hope u can help me
thanks in advance

All three things you want cannot be done in standard C alone. You will need to use whatever features the operating system you are using provides. For windows that would be the windows api. There are a few libraries that you could use, wxwindows and qt spring to mind but again the learning curve for these is as steep as the learning curve for windows. We have covered beginning windows programming many times a board search will turn up a list of recommended books and web tuts etc.
btw. If your compiler supports graphics.h then you will almost certainly need a better compiler as that is a relic from ages past.

i have also visual c++
abnd borland c++6
yet i dont know how to use them
i learned C to dos consol using the old turbo borland C
can u help me more?

will borland c 4.5 work?

>>will borland c 4.5 work
yes but it is not a good compiler. For windows visual C would be better. The command line verson of msvc7.1 is available freely on M$ site.

As for beginning windows programming you could start here otherwise as I have said do a board search.

i have visual c++ 6
but i dont even know where the console is
i cant build there even the most simple program such as

Code:

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void main()
{
printf ("hello world");
}

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start new project. Look at the templates on msvc6 one of them is windows32 console application. thats the one you want for "dos" or a win32 application for windows. Cant remember for sure not used 6 in a few years.

ok thanks ive managed to do somethings in it
yet i still dont know which library to use for the getpixel and the other stuff i wanted.
also for some reason i dont have the MSDN files

MSDN is browsable online.
For things like GetPixel dont try to run before you can walk. Follow your way through the tuts at winprog. Learn how to make a window, add controls to it, paint it etc. It will not take too long before you are comfortable enough with that to move onto more intensive stuff.

I think the best way to learn C is through Linux, makes me understand things a lot easier at least.