Oh, you're right.

But actually, I dropped the system of using different members for red, green, blue, and alpha. I'm just using a single hex value as a member to save space.

Edit:
Just...

the string::c_str() method converts the contents of an std::string to const char*. For example:

string str1 = "Hello";
const char* str2 = "Hello";
str1.c_str();//would return a value equivalent...

*sigh*

Okay, you want to know where to start. I've never written an AVI loader - but here are a couple of places to start (and I don't think where you start is going to be language specific).
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I'm writing a program for a contest (it's a demo, not the actual thing - so I'm not cheating by asking for help - and my question isn't directly related to the algorithm they want anyway). To submit...

It doesn't matter if you're using Express. I had to do the same thing.

A friend of mine recently asked me how one would convert a .bmp font to a .ttf. I said I was unsure, but it got me thinking to how I would code a program to do that. How would someone who wants to...

It isn't bogus crap. Learn to understand it and you'll begin to be able to solve problems on your own, though its understandable that at first you'll have no idea what it means.

The compilers...

Trying using surfaces instead of textures. link (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb172900(VS.85).aspx) I believe that surfaces are supposed to be used for backgrounds, like the one you're...

If you'd like to link to a lib through the compiler's interface rather than using #pragma, right-click on your project's name in the panel to the left, go down to properties, expand linker, go to...

Depending on how much of a beginner you are, you may want to stick with console apps for a while and get a handle around pointers, classes, inheritance, and polymorphism to some degree. But, you...

You would actually name the file myFile.h, not myFile.cpp. When you #include something you are basically taking the contents of the header (*.h) file and dumping them into your current .cpp file. If...