ty, i'm running an asus L210 which is a $210 mini lappy, i'm pretty curious as welsh since my methods are common. i'll add debugging comments today or tomorrow if anyone's still around, because really i would have enjoyed helping people learn how to use the techniques :p
i've been programming about as long as there have been programs and i've never been an enthusiast for environments or SDKs, it always seems to me like everyone releases resources but their intent is never for people to actually be able to use them. i've been trying to learn opengl since 1.4 but their demo was impossible to integrate with the win32 code i had for using the audio drivers and, well, gamedev.net for example keep a special URL where they state their reasons for banning me and not letting me tell anyone how i've managed to find out how to do anything for a couple decades. for example. but that information doesn't help anyone unless they also need to avoid people.