X-G, I know.
But I'd prefer if 23 could simply fix the bug

So would 23. But I have no idea what the problem is.
What if you compile it from scratch?

Ok, I just tried it on my "out-of-the-box" laptop with Windows XP SP1. Nothing happens after double-clicking on the program. If I look at the task manager, I can see that the process starts. It dies without any warning a few seconds later.

Upon disabling the visual themes for the executable, it loaded right up. I may play around with the source if I feel up to it.

Thanks Trumgottist! So is this something I need to do or is this something the end user needs to do?

BTW, I just picked up a mouse w/ scroll wheel, so I get to code the tile scrolling now

Sounds like I either need to give windows their own DC or stop doing so Either someone will have to narrow it down for me or I release 50 versions which you try until it works

I'll see if I'm using any CS_OWNDC messages or anything later.

EDIT: I added mouse wheel functionality; scrolling with it while drawing with the left or right button moves through the tiles now. Details are at the bottom of tour.html. Works great; I love it

Google turns up nothing on AliasDXDC, so heck if I know what to do with this info I don't have XP so I can't check "this" compatability fix ("this" like Trumgottist already has it?), and I'm not doing anything special with the DC's that I can see ... anyone wanna be a little more specific?

Okay, I think I found something like that. I have a "double-buffering" HDC that's static and updated in WM_SIZE for the main tile-drawing window. I've now restrained it's creation and destruction to WM_PAINT (which I didn't do initially since I thought it might be slower). It still works for me, so let's see if it works for you I may also be doing this in other dialogs, but it should at least run now.

On the scroll wheel stuff; you may find tile scrolling while drawing messes up the Undo. It seems to work okay for the left button but not the right; I'm working on fixing this ...

So what should I use for VC6? _argc and _argv work fine in MinGW

I made a minor change or two; any difference?

Yeah, I guess Roxette would be big in Sweden I tried GetCommandLine() once but had problems (old thread); I could try again ...

Okay, this one comments out the main message pump and just displays a friggin' MessageBox(). Does that at least come up!?

Any other XP users are free to jump in and give Trrumgotist a break

You gotta be kidding! You are downloading the zip anew, right?

I removed the _argv/_argc and wrote up some code to do the equivalent using GetCommandLine(), plus I added some MessageBox()'s to the initialization code. Any difference this time?

EDIT: Funny; still works just fine for me ...

Well at least it's getting past the loading now

Try now; I added a check to see if CreateWindow fails. That was the command right after "Creating Window!" ...

Odd.
I run it, it says "Bummer."
Then the window loads, without XP skins.. I clicked on it, xp skins appeared, and it crashed

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That was with themse OFF.. With themes on it does pretty much the same thing, but it shows the XP skins all the time. Shouldn't it not show XP skins at all the first time? That's weird.

no, it no longer works with themes disabled. It shows the window and crashes both ways for me.

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With themes on it's a step up from when I first tried it... so, it's getting there

There must be something about this on the msdn site or gamedev or something.