Blizzard Demo

I have a problem with a blizzard demo I am writing. It is from gaming programming book by michael morrison. I'm using dev-c++ ide. It involves drawing icons to a window in random locations. I did search the forums and found most people call it the skeleton program that draws skeletons not snowflakes. Anyway here is the main code.

Code:

#include "Blizzard.h"

#include <stdlib.h>

bool GameInitialize(HINSTANCE hInstance)
{
//create game engine
    g_pGame = new GameEngine(hInstance, TEXT("Blizzard"),
    TEXT("Blizzard"), IDI_BLIZZARD, IDI_BLIZZARD_SM);
    if (g_pGame == NULL)
    return FALSE;

// set frame rate

    g_pGame ->SetFrameRate(1);

    return TRUE;

}

void GameStart(HWND hWindow)
{
    // seed random number generator
    srand(GetTickCount());
}

void GameEnd()
{
    // game clean up engine
    delete g_pGame;
}

void GameActivate(HWND hWindow)
{
    HDC hDC;
    RECT rect;

    // draw activation text on game screen
    GetClientRect(hWindow, &rect);
    hDC = GetDC(hWindow);
    DrawText(hDC, TEXT("Here comes the Blizzard!"), -1, &rect, DT_SINGLELINE|DT_CENTER|DT_VCENTER);
    ReleaseDC(hWindow, hDC);
}

void GameDeactivate(HWND hWindow)
{
    HDC hDC;
    RECT rect;

    // draw deactivation text on game screen
    GetClientRect(hWindow, &rect);
    hDC = GetDC(hWindow);
    DrawText(hDC, TEXT("The Blizzard has passed."), -1, &rect, DT_SINGLELINE|DT_CENTER|DT_VCENTER);
    ReleaseDC(hWindow, hDC);
}

void GamePaint(HDC hDC)
{
}

void GameCycle()
{
    HDC hDC;
    HWND hWindow = g_pGame ->GetWindow();

    // draw snowflake at random positisons on screen
    hDC = GetDC(hWindow);
    DrawIcon(hDC, rand() &#37; g_pGame->GetWidth(), g_pGame->GetHeight(), (HICON)(WORD)GetClassLong(hWindow, GCL_HICON));
    ReleaseDC(hWindow, hDC);

}

I hope the above is readable. Tried to follow the sticky FAQ

The error I get is
warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size related to the line DrawIcon etc, hopefully in bold above.
It compiles but when run I get a small icon in titlebar but no sign of any snowflakes appearing on the screen. Interestingly if I minimise the window and then maximise it displays text called "here comes the blizzard!". This must be invoking msg handler GameActivate.
Any help would be greatly appreciated (if you need to see other headers/resource let me know).

A good idea is to look online for a working example of DrawIcon, just google it, and find out whether your casting is correct. I don't quite understand the problem you are having, but I'm sure if you were to find a better DrawIcon example code you can fix this problem easily.

Am I the only one that got duped into thinking this was going to be about a game demo from Blizzard Entertainment?

No, you're not. I actually only clicked this because I wondered what the thread was doing in this board.

Anyway, now that I'm here ...

Code:

 (HICON)(WORD)GetClassLong(hWindow, GCL_HICON));

Should be

Code:

(HICON)GetClassLongPtr(hWindow, GCLP_HICON));

I've no idea what possessed the book author to first cast the value to a WORD.

Thanks for replies. Sorry for misleading title with blizzard entertainment.
Decided to try ArseNic suggestion and simply made one snowflake appear on the screen. Once that worked I set up a loop with rand inside to generate x,y coordinates. This actually worked and produced a pretty good pattern. Was great full my skills taught me to problem solve.

Code:

 int x=10;
    int y = 10;
    int z =0;
    
   while (z< 700)
   {
    
    // draw snowflake at random positisons on screen
    hDC = GetDC(hWindow);
    DrawIcon(hDC, rand() % x, rand() % y, (HICON)(WORD)GetClassLong(hWindow, GCL_HICON));
    ReleaseDC(hWindow, hDC);
    x=x+ rand() % 300;
    y=y+ rand() % 300;
    z++;

That's it. Not sure if it's very optimised but works!
Thanks CornedBee for suggestion. Tried altering original with that code but it halted with GetClassLongPtr , GCLP underfined.

Hmm ... probably because Dev-C++ comes with an old version of the SDK. Recent Code::Blocks releases would be better, there.