VBGamer

3 words. My Game Engine. CDXVB7 is the answer to all your problems. Goto http://www.geocities.com/TheGilb/ and download the CDXVB7 SDK. Not only does CDXVB7 support crap loads of things (With *complete* source code), but it overcomes the problem you have, and has an example showing how to do it I think! (It's an old SDK for me, been a long time since I looked at it). But the map editor uses CDXVB7, and it has 2 forms (One for tiles, one for tile placement), and it uses windowed DirectDraw on each of the forms. If the map editor isn't there, then take a look at http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb and search for CDXVB (It should come up with a lot of my submissions). Bear in mind you will also need win32.tlb from http://www.chez.com/scribe/ I hope this helps. It will be quite a lot of work, and you may have to rip the code you want out of CDXVB7, but this is the best I can offer.