I know you all must hate me but another ?

I'm trying to load a BMP image in. At first I was trying to load an external file but after repeated failures I switched to trying to load a predefined bitmap. All attempts with the predefined return with error 1814 (ERROR_RESOURCE_NAME_NOT_FOUND) when trying to load. When doing my own I get error 1812 (ERROR_RESOURCE_DATA_NOT_FOUND). File I'm trying to load:
http://www.mikemill.org/images/directions.bmp

Code:

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProcMap (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    static HBITMAP hBmp;
    int c1,c2, tmp;
    static int x, y;
    HINSTANCE hInstance;
    TCHAR szBuffer[100];

    switch (message)
        {
        case WM_CREATE:
                if ( SetCurrentDirectory("c:\\game\\wingame\\pic") == 0)
                      {tmp = GetLastError();MessageBoxPrintf( TEXT ("Error"),TEXT ("Set Directory Error Number: %i"), tmp);}
                
                hInstance = (HINSTANCE) GetWindowLong (hwnd, GWL_HINSTANCE);
                
                if ( (tmp=SearchPath (NULL, TEXT("directions"), TEXT(".bmp"), 100, szBuffer, NULL)) == 0)
                   {tmp = GetLastError();MessageBoxPrintf( TEXT ("Error"),TEXT ("Find File Error Number: %i"), tmp);}
                MessageBoxPrintf( TEXT ("String"),TEXT ("String %d: %s"), tmp, szBuffer);
                if ( (hBmp = LoadBitmap(hInstance, szBuffer)) ==NULL)
                     {tmp = GetLastError();MessageBoxPrintf( TEXT ("Error"),TEXT ("Load BMP Error Number: %i"), tmp);}
                
                return 0;
                
        case WM_PAINT:
                {
                PAINTSTRUCT ps;
                HDC hdc = BeginPaint (hwnd, &ps);
                HDC hdcMem = CreateCompatibleDC (hdc);                
                SelectObject(hdcMem, hBmp);
                if (BitBlt (hdc, 100, 100, 30, 30, hdcMem, 0, 0, SRCCOPY) == 0)
                    {tmp = GetLastError();MessageBoxPrintf( TEXT ("Error"),TEXT ("Button Error Number: %i"), tmp);}

                EndPaint (hwnd, &ps);              
                DeleteObject(hdcMem);
                }
                return 0;
                
        case WM_DESTROY:
                PostQuitMessage (0);
                return 0;
        
        case WM_SIZE:
                x = LOWORD (lParam);
                y = HIWORD (lParam);
                return 0;
        
        }
    return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}

As a side note: I have tried to use LoadImage() but when I try to do something like hBmp = LoadImage (......); I get an error when compiling saying "ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from `void *' in assignment"

try

hBmp =(HBITMAP) LoadImage (......);

hBmp= (HBITMAP)LoadBitmap(hInst,MAKEINTRESOURCE (ID_MYBITMAP));

Ensure that you have added the bitmap to the exe thru the resource editor and given it an ID. That is it must be contained in the exe not as an external file.

Code:

sprintf(sImage,".\\Images\\LoadThis.bmp");
hImage=(HBITMAP) LoadImage( hInstance, sImage, IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE);

PS
SelectObject(hdcMem, hBmp);
should be
HBITMAP hOld=NULL;
hOld= SelectObject(hdcMem,hBmp);
//yada yada
SelectObject(hdcMem,hOld);//put the old GDI object back then the DC will delete correctly
DeleteDC(hdcMem);

>>I know you all must hate me but another ?<<
I only hate it when people use stupid thread titles that aren't relevant to the actual subject
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/annou...p?s=&forumid=7

Yea sorry about that Hammer. Edited title to make it clearer. Was on my last legs when posted last night.

Ok I think 99% of the problem is that I'm not using a Resource file. Tried looking all over my compilier (Dev C++ ver 4.9.8.1) and it doesn't seem to have anything for making them. Is there a third party software that is good for making RC files?

Edit: Ok just noticed that editing the first post's title doesn't change the thread's title

you could just use a text editor to make the resource file.