You may have a look at Chris' Creating Custom Controls or Create your own controls - the art of subclassing. Regards Thomas Finally with Sonork id: 100.10453 Thömmi Disclaimer: Because of heavy processing requirements, we are currently using some of your unused brain capacity for backup processing. Please ignore any hallucinations, voices or unusual dreams you may experience. Please avoid concentration-intensive tasks until further notice. Thank you.

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DO you mean an array of pixel values ? You can create a DIBSection and copy the data directly onto the bitmap if you want to. Any decent DIBSection wrapper will also have a draw function, so all you need to do is pass in the DC you get in OnPaint. Christian I have come to clean zee pooollll. - Michael Martin Dec 30, 2001 Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOz I live in Bob's HungOut now

I think you need to look in the SetCooperateLevel function (I think that's the name, anyway, or something like it). Also, it would be good advice to look at the DirectX sample progras, they are a gold mine. -- Andrew.

lauren wrote: whats the problem with this? There's no *problem* per se, but if you mix C and C++ memory allocationj calls, you need to be careful not to free something you new'd. You also don't get the benefit of constructors and destructors. If you need to realloc, you should instead use a container like vector. Your code will obviously work, but the way of doing things I am suggesting is *better*. To read Stroustrup on this ( and I've pretty much quoted him, so you don't need to as such ), turn to page 577 of the third edition of the C++ Programming Language. Christian I have come to clean zee pooollll. - Michael Martin Dec 30, 2001 Sonork ID 100.10002:MeanManOz I live in Bob's HungOut now

...maybe the problem is your structure... Use the following pragma's around your definition: #pragma pack(push, 1) ... #pragma pack(pop) have fun... jk :cool: