Can anyone tell me why this won't compile?

[SMcNeill]

Thanks everyone.  I appreciate the welcome.  Be prepared.  I'm sure I'll have plenty more dumb questions.  Did you know you can't set the _ClearColor  _RGB() for an image before you setup your screen?  I just found that one out today!  It works when you grab a point from the background like the examples show, though.  I'm guessing it has something to do with the screens default bit depth before Screen _NewImage is called.

From the way this sounds to me, you were trying to do something like:

_CLEARCOLOR _RGB(r, g, b)
SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(x, y, 32)

The problem here is that you were clearing the color for the default, start up screen, SCREEN 0.  THEN you were swapping to a different SCREEN with the _NEWIMAGE.   

You can't clear colors on a screen that doesn't even exist yet. 

What you could do is something like:

MyScreen = _NewImage(x, y, 32)
_ClearColor _RGB(r, g, b), MyScreen
Screen MyScreen

With the above, you make the screen, clear the color, then swap to that screen after it's all the way the you need it to be.