Hi, I'm running through the Game Programming Genesis DirectDraw tutorials and I'm having trouble getting a bitmap onto the screen. Looking over my code, as far as I can tell it should work, but my bitmap does not appear on the screen. Everything else seems to run okay and I don't get any error messages, so I think that maybe the bitmap is getting loaded okay. I would be greatful if someone could have a peak at my code and maybe point out where my problem might be (and any other pointers would be great as well). Thanks for any help! Cheers, Prime Here's a snippit: (sorry for the length) in main.cpp -- snipped -- bool gameWork() { // lock the primary surface (for now) // later we will use the back buffer as well INIT_DXSTRUCT(ddSurfaceStruct); // clean our struct if(FAILED(ddPrimarySurfacePtr->Lock(NULL, &ddSurfaceStruct, DDLOCK_WAIT | DDLOCK_SURFACEMEMORYPTR, NULL))) { return false; } // set up our some pixels USHORT *displayBuffer = (USHORT*)ddSurfaceStruct.lpSurface; // get the buffer of display memory int pitch = (ddSurfaceStruct.lPitch>>1); // divide by 2 to get number of USHORTs (for 16bit) USHORT colour; // for our color // check color depth if (pixelFormat == 555) colour = RGB_16BIT555(31, 31, 31); else colour = RGB_16BIT565(31, 31, 31); //plot some pixels plotPixel16(200, 200, colour, displayBuffer, pitch); plotPixel16(370, 370, colour, displayBuffer, pitch); // clear back buffer //clearBuffer(ddPrimarySurfacePtr); // bitmap stuff //setSurfaceColourKey(ddBackBufferPtr, 255, 0, 0); // set to red // set the location of the bitmap //SetRect(&location, 200, 200, 32, 32); // copy the image to the back buffer //ddBackBufferPtr->Blt(&location, myBitmap, NULL, DDBLT_WAIT, NULL); // now blit the back buffer to the primary surface //ddPrimarySurfacePtr->Blt(NULL, ddBackBufferPtr, NULL, DDBLT_WAIT, NULL); //(I realize that I don't really want to dump the bitmap directly //to the primary screen buffer and scale to the full size, but I //was just trying to eliminate as many variables as possibles) ddPrimarySurfacePtr->Blt(NULL, myBitmap, NULL, DDBLT_WAIT, NULL); // unlock surface ddPrimarySurfacePtr->Unlock(NULL); return true; } -- snipped -- Edited by - Prime on June 12, 2001 10:09:24 AM

Hi,

Yeah, your right, I was kind of thinking that after I had done it. I've cleaned it up that post a bit. And I think I have found my problem

Prime

Edited by - Prime on June 12, 2001 12:03:19 PM