> Does anyone know why XCC mixer 1.22 is giving me a poor image when i view things like the icons and the ".shp" files? Is it my computer or the program itself?
> And also when I play the animation shp's it doesn't display anything, and another thing! The drop down menu where it says "copy as jpg" or png or whatever, I click on that and then i look at it in the file it was copied to and its just a black image, Help Me!

Is any RA2 (or whatever) installed? Can you choose a palet? (View->Palet->Red Alert 2) .

Unlike BMP or PCX, an SHP requires an external palet, no palet no image.