Loading Bitmap Files into DirectDraw

Argh im very stuck. Ive been trying to follow a tutorial to show me how to create a surface to put my sprites into. The CreateBitmapSurface function within this tutorial gives me a compiler error: :\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MyProjects\Game\Scr\directDraw.cpp(122) : error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'void *' to 'struct HBITMAP__ *'
Conversion from 'void*' to pointer to non-'void' requires an explicit cast

and im stuck...

I admit im a noob, but this game im writting needs to work, otherwise my degree will be void D:

Any help would be great

thx Indica

[edit] Sorry i should probably state im using vc++ 6 and directX8

[edited by - Indica on February 26, 2003 12:31:30 PM]

myBitmap = (HBITMAP)LoadImage(blah blah)

This is called casting. It changes (well, not really) the type of an object to another type you need to work with. Its a very useful and necessary programming practice to learn.

Brian J

now how are you supposed to display the bitmap once it''s on the surface?

It doesn't work for me, after calling

CreateBitmapSurface(Tile0, "c:\\gamedev\\gfx\\tile2.bmp", 64, 64);

Tile0 remains NULL