>Does anybody have any idea why the empty dialog box overwrites my picture?

Sure; you have to handle "Window updates"; these get posted when the system
wants to(obviously not right away) update your window. So, just draw your
picture when you see a window update event for the particular window ID,
and you should be fine. I'm more of a PG person, and this is handled in PG
gracefully behind my back, I don't actually have any code to share ^_^;;

You'll want to look in one of your FB manuals on updating windows.



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