Why GDIplus does not work on windows 8?

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Dear Wang.

I'am adam. I program in win32 and c lang. . I converted your code about '
Yet Another Transparent Clock which Supports Custom Skin' article, from MFC to WIN32.
Everything was ok in windows XP and 7, in 32 and 64bits. But when I port it to windows 8, nothings was displayed on screen, without any error. I think GDIplus does not work on windows 8.
My question is, do you have any idea about this problem?
thank you.
adam.

Posted 1-Jul-14 4:38am

MercuryNiny

Updated 12-Apr-19 18:12pm

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[no name] 1-Jul-14 10:45am

You would need to ask at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30707/Yet-Another-Transparent-Clock-which-Supports-Custo

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Michael Haephrati · Answer 1 · 2019-04-12T18:12:00

You probably need to initialize GDIPlus first.

#include <windows.h>
#include <gdiplus.h>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace Gdiplus;

INT main()
{
   GdiplusStartupInput gdiplusStartupInput;
   ULONG_PTR gdiplusToken;
   GdiplusStartup(&gdiplusToken, &gdiplusStartupInput, NULL);

// you code here
   GdiplusShutdown(gdiplusToken);
   return 0;
}