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From: curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: LoadBitmap help resummarization of help needed
Message-ID: <bjs4g8ti2@cctb.wa.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 21:26:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.103524.8474@cs.ubc.ca> <27518@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: Chemical Computer Thinking Battery, Redmond, WA
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In article <27518@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
Program dies during:
| hBitMap=LoadBitmap(hInst,"boom");


| 2.  For some reason, substituting in a standard Windows bitmap and using:
| 
| hBitMap=LoadBitmap(NULL,"OLD_BITMAP");  // OLD_BITMAP for demonstrative
| 					// purposes
Shouldn't that be:
	hBitMap=LoadBitmap(NULL,IDI_APPLICATION); //no quotes for standard Windows bitmaps

| Anyway, I can't seem to find the problem still.  My RC file has the
| following as the last line:
| 
| boom BITMAP BOOM.BMP

I have two guesses:

1. If boom is #defined as anything you will have a problem.

2. If the last line in your .RC file is not followed by a linefeed it is possible
   that is is being ignored (if RC.EXE is not written well).


Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com