Automation Error!! Please!!

more info would be nice..
directdraw? d3d? opengl? what are you trying to do??

and what do you mean your program says that? does it come up in a message box or what??

I''d guess it refers to OLE Automation, which is a MS technology that deals with a scripting language (normally VB or JScript) calling COM objects. Run it in a debugger and when it pops up the error - break and take a look at your stack. Your last call to a COM interface or Win32 API is what''s causing the problem, most likely.

Yeah, vladg is right. In my extensive experience of Automation Errors, and I''ve caused a hell of a lot of them in my job as a VB(as in the language not the buffer) programmer, it is generally because you are trying to use a COM object that has crashed or your instruction crashed it. It could be an OCX, DLL or ActiveX EXE.

When you alt-tab you change which application has the focus, and you may find that whatever API you are using doesn''t like this and just crashes, I seem to remember that DX will do this. If you are using DX then the examples in the SDK show how to handle this change.