Alright got past my very stupid question now I''m on to another one.Alright I just got the Programming Role Playing Games with Direct X.Right now I''m trying to get just a window on the screen but I keep having these problems come up mostly centered around the WindowProc area of the program.I''ve checked and rechecked the spelling against that that was in the book and it seems I have everything right but I keep getting these compiler errors.Can anyone tell me what I''m doing wrong.The code''s below. #include <windows.h> //WinMain int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, //Instance handle of application HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, //unused LPSTR lpCmdLine, //Command Line Options (if any) int nCmdShow) // Show Window Flag { WNDCLASSEX wcex = { sizeof(WNDCLASSEX),CS_CLASSDC, WindowProc,OL,OL,hInstance, NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL, "GameClass",NULL}; //Register the class if(!RegisterClassEx(&wcex)) return FALSE; //Now Create the window HWND hWnd; //Our Windows Handle hWnd = CreateWindow("GameClass", "Legend of Dragfora",WS_BORDER, 640,480,0,0,NULL,NULL,hInstance,NULL); //Return On Error if(hWnd == NULL) return FALSE; //Show the Window ShowWindow(hWnd,SW_SHOWNORMAL); UpdateWindow(hWnd); //The Message pump MSG Msg; //Clear out the Message structure ZeroMemory(&Msg,sizeof(MSG)); //Loop endlessly until you receive a quit message while(Msg.message != WM_QUIT) { //Peek into the queue and see if there''s a message if(PeekMessage(&Msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { //There''s a Message! Handle it Normally TranslateMessage(&Msg); DispatchMessage(&Msg); } else { //If there''s no messages the coputer can go ahead //and do other things like tending to sound or game //graphics } //Unregister Class UnregisterClass("GameClass",hInstance); //Exit Application return 0; } } I get about 7 errors but the errors all seem to center around this piece of code WNDCLASSEX wcex = { sizeof(WNDCLASSEX),CS_CLASSDC, WindowProc,OL,OL,hInstance, NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL, "GameClass",NULL}; I think it will be one thing wrong which when found will straighten out all 7 errors but I can''t seem to find anything.Please help! The road to hell is paved in good intentions

Well for starters you don''t have a WindowProc callback function.

I''m just gonna paste the fix''s to your code

when you are copying from a book. 0L the first character is zero no capital O.

Have you written the WinProc callback function yet?

you need that!

When I compiled just the code above, it gave me seven errors (in MSVC++ 6.0)

Add the following above your winmain function

LRESULT WINAPI WindowProc( HWND hWnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam )
{

switch( msg )
{
case WM_DESTROY:
PostQuitMessage( 0 );
return 0;
case WM_CLOSE:
DestroyWindow(hWnd);
break;
}
return DefWindowProc( hWnd, msg, wParam, lParam );
}

[edit]forget it. i'm stupid [/edit]

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[edited by - Mrbeaner on May 24, 2002 2:14:39 PM]

Also, you need to make sure and have a return 0 statement after the while(Msg.message != WM_QUIT){...}

as in:
while(Msg.message != WM_QUIT)
{
//Peek into the queue and see if there''s a message
if(PeekMessage(&Msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE))
{
//There''s a Message! Handle it Normally
TranslateMessage(&Msg);
DispatchMessage(&Msg);
}
else
{
//If there''s no messages the coputer can go ahead
//and do other things like tending to sound or game
//graphics

}

//Unregister Class
UnregisterClass("GameClass",hInstance);

//Exit Application
return 0;
}
return 0; //should be here

Hey there it is.I got it.Thanks alot for all your help.I hope it starts to get a little smoother from here.I guess I didn''t read quite far enough.I didn''t want to get too far and find out my code wasn''t working so at least now I''m somewhat on the right track now.Thanks alot.

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