> > > i bet people are gonna find this annoying. i have been unable this whole time to make it so your front end doesn't cover the window my program uses. the graphics are fine coz they use fullscreen. but the beginning where it is just text telling you how the 3ds loading is progressing is covered by your front end sometimes. what am i supposed to do to stop it doing that.

> > How come it's covered by the frontend? Isn't your app the active app? Activate apps should be at the top.

> yeah how do i make it the active application in my code?

See the Win32 SDK docs.