Under the game main below I drawtext to the backsurface, when I do that and then flip the location is not at 0,0. it''s like 40 pixels to the right. and 20 pixels down. It''s not just drawing text, when I blit bitmaps it''s the same thing. It''s like the whole surface is rigged or something. Below I have the game main(which draws the text) initdirectdraw(which creates primary surface etc) and the drawtextfunction itself. Any ideas on what''s causing this? THX!

    
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int Game_Main(void *parms = NULL, int num_parms = 0)
{

// test if user is hitting ESC and send WM_CLOSE

if (KEYDOWN(VK_ESCAPE))
   SendMessage(main_window_handle,WM_CLOSE,0,0);

FillSurface(backsurf,_RGB16BIT565(32,64,32));
Draw_Text_GDI("HI",0,0,_RGB16BIT565(255,255,0),backsurf);

FlipSurfaces();
return(1);
} // end Game_Main


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int InitDirectDraw(int width,  int height,   int bpp)
// Creates DirectDraw and creates a double buffer

{
LPDIRECTDRAW ddraw1obj; //ddraw 1.0

DirectDrawCreate( NULL, &ddraw1obj, NULL); //create the object


ddraw1obj->QueryInterface(IID_IDirectDraw4,(LPVOID *)&ddraw4obj); //get the ddraw 4.0 with 1.0

ddraw1obj->Release(); //dump ddraw 1.0 obj, we using 4.0 now
ddraw1obj = NULL;     //set it to null just for the hell of it


//from now on we can always use ddraw 4.0, which is really directx 6.0
ddraw4obj->SetCooperativeLevel( main_window_handle, //windows stuff

							    DDSCL_EXCLUSIVE|    //don''t let anything interrupt ddraw

							    DDSCL_FULLSCREEN|   //fullscreen is nice

							    DDSCL_ALLOWMODEX);  //modex is some vga thing


ddraw4obj->SetDisplayMode(width, height, bpp, 0, 0); //simply set the display,bpp is bits per pixel


ShowCursor(FALSE); //don''t want to see windows cursor


memset(&surfdesc,0,sizeof(surfdesc)); //zero out and set size

surfdesc.dwSize=sizeof(surfdesc);

surfdesc.dwFlags= DDSD_CAPS | DDSD_BACKBUFFERCOUNT; //setting these enable dwCaps and dwBackBufferCount

surfdesc.dwBackBufferCount = 1; //set backbuffercount to 1, double buffer including primary surface
surfdesc.ddsCaps.dwCaps = DDSCAPS_PRIMARYSURFACE | DDSCAPS_COMPLEX | DDSCAPS_FLIP; //ddsCaps is just required to get to dwCaps 

//the settings above  are required if you want to make a double buffer

if(FAILED(ddraw4obj->CreateSurface(&surfdesc,&primsurf,NULL))) //create the primary surface from the ddraw4 object

     return(0);

surfdesc.ddsCaps.dwCaps = DDSCAPS_BACKBUFFER; // set the description to backbuffer

if(FAILED(primsurf->GetAttachedSurface(&surfdesc.ddsCaps,&backsurf))) //now using the description(set to back buffer) we attach the backsurf(declared at top) to primsurf
    return(0);

//make the following global so we can use em in main program

width  = Screen_Width; 
height = Screen_Height;
bpp    = Screen_BPP;
return(1);
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int Draw_Text_GDI(char *text, 
				  int x, 
				  int y, 
				  COLORREF color, 
				  LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE4 surface)
{
HDC devicecontext;
surface->GetDC(&devicecontext);
SetTextColor(devicecontext,color);
SetBkMode(devicecontext,TRANSPARENT);
TextOut(devicecontext,x,y,text,strlen(text));
surface->ReleaseDC(devicecontext);


return(1);
}
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    

anyone have any ideas???

Perhaps the problem is that the monitor settings are changed?
If there is a black edge above and to the left of your surfce that might be the problem.

See what happens if you play with your monitor a bit.
If you move the screen up a bit and you see more of the surface coming up at the bottom then that is your problem.
I don''t know how to fix it.