shwick 0 Junior Poster in Training

I have a question similar to this, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457050/how-to-display-text-in-system-tray-icon-with-win32-api

I tried his solution but it's not working for me. I get a small 4x16 white image as the system icon instead of text and I can't understand why.

I'm not using MFC/.NET just win32 api.

void UpdateIcon(HWND hWnd){
	NOTIFYICONDATA nid;
	nid.cbSize = sizeof(NOTIFYICONDATA);
	nid.hWnd = hWnd;
	nid.uID = 100;
	nid.hIcon = CreateSmallIcon(hWnd);
	nid.uFlags = NIF_ICON;
	Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, &nid);
}

HICON CreateSmallIcon( HWND hWnd )
{
    static TCHAR *szText = TEXT ( "100" );
    HDC hdc, hdcMem;
    HBITMAP hBitmap = NULL;
    HBITMAP hOldBitMap = NULL;
    HBITMAP hBitmapMask = NULL;
    ICONINFO iconInfo;
    HFONT hFont;
    HICON hIcon;

    hdc = GetDC ( hWnd );
    hdcMem = CreateCompatibleDC ( hdc );
    hBitmap = CreateCompatibleBitmap ( hdc, 16, 16 );
    hBitmapMask = CreateCompatibleBitmap ( hdc, 16, 16 );
    ReleaseDC ( hWnd, hdc );
    hOldBitMap = (HBITMAP) SelectObject ( hdcMem, hBitmap );
    PatBlt ( hdcMem, 0, 0, 16, 16, WHITENESS );

    // Draw percentage
    hFont = CreateFont (12, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                    TEXT ("Arial"));
    hFont = (HFONT) SelectObject ( hdcMem, hFont );
    TextOut ( hdcMem, 0, 0, szText, lstrlen (szText) );

    SelectObject ( hdc, hOldBitMap );
    hOldBitMap = NULL;

    iconInfo.fIcon = TRUE;
    iconInfo.xHotspot = 0;
    iconInfo.yHotspot = 0;
    iconInfo.hbmMask = hBitmapMask;
    iconInfo.hbmColor = hBitmap;

    hIcon = CreateIconIndirect ( &iconInfo );

    DeleteObject ( SelectObject ( hdcMem, hFont ) );
    DeleteDC ( hdcMem );
    DeleteDC ( hdc );
    DeleteObject ( hBitmap );
    DeleteObject ( hBitmapMask );

    return hIcon;
}
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