How do I load bitmaps in GDI without getting errors using CreatePatternBrush and LoadBitmap? Thank you!

I trully am not good with GDI, gonna have to get help from some one else!

Use LoadImage rather than LoadBitmap.

If you want to display the image, Select it into a device context, and then Blt it to the DC of your window. The MSDN has full details on this, but if you have a more specific question I can give a better answer.

http://workspot.net/~kondor/tutors/windows/index.html

look at loading a bmp
good luck