Status bar

Are you trying to draw that bar in GL itself or is it a part of your window. If the latter and you are relying on the window's client area parameters, you may have to re-compute your viewport, so that GL doesn't actually draw over the status bar.

Im scared OpenGL is infact drawing over the status bar, I just cant figure out how to fix it.

What do you pass to glViewport on a resize?
How tall is your status bar?

I made it so the window cannot be resized. Its always 640x480.

And Ive noticed when I first run the application, I can see the status bar flash up, but then its covered by openGL. Ive tried messing with the glViewport and ortho settings but opengl still draws over the status bar.

EDIT:
This is how I declare the status bar

g_hStatus = CreateWindowEx(0, STATUSCLASSNAME, NULL, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | SBARS_SIZEGRIP, 0, 0, 0, 0,            hwnd, (HMENU)IDC_STATUS, g_hInstance, NULL);

I do that in my "create window" function right after i declare the window handle.

hmmm i could be because the window is 'owner drawn' and you control the whole view pane via OpenGL, so I would guess that to use a status bar you would have to attach a view panel of some sort to the window, above the status bar, and then draw to that.

I could be barking up the wrong leaf supporting plant, however that would certainly fix the problem [smile]

I am not a windows expert, so I don't know for sure how you would go around reducing the client area for GL itself. Assuming you're using plain Win32, you might succeed by creating a control (like a picture control or something) and use that as your context instead of the whole window.

Otherwise, well, setting your viewport properly *before* you do a glClear, or something, might work.