I have been working through the book. I tried to compile and play about with some of the code. It runs fine in a window, however if I try to run it fullscreen, it resizes the desktop and thats it. If you press escape it will still close the program and restore the desktop as its supposed to so the program is obviously running. The nehe basecode runs fine, windowed and fullscreen. The code I am trying seems to run ok on another computer, although a little slower than expected. Does anyone know why this would be? Any suggestions? thanks... zoidy

Hmm, it sounds like the rendering context is being created but its not being refreshed thats why its displaying the desktop. It maybe something to do with SwapBuffers().

Hyperdev

"To err is human, to really mess up requires a computer"

Thanks for your reply, Im looking into that now
zoidy

Did you try Alt-Tab?

Actually, I did try alt and tab. I spent some time looking into the SwapBuffers as suggested. After ages, I looked through the code again and on a whim changed the colour depth from 32 to 16 and it worked fine. Whoops. Thank you both for your help though...
zoidy