IDirectDraw (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

Applications use the methods of the IDirectDraw interface to create DirectDraw objects and work with system-level variables.

Methods

In addition to the methods inherited from IUnknown this interface exposes the following methods.

Method	Description
IDirectDraw::CreateClipper	Creates a DirectDrawClipper object.
IDirectDraw::CreateSurface	Creates a DirectDrawSurface object for this DirectDraw object.
IDirectDraw::EnumDisplayModes	Enumerates all of the display modes the hardware exposes through the DirectDraw object that are compatible with a provided surface description.
IDirectDraw::EnumSurfaces	Enumerates all of the existing or possible surfaces that meet the specified surface description.
IDirectDraw::FlipToGDISurface	Makes the surface that the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) writes to the primary surface.
IDirectDraw::GetAvailableVidMem	Retrieves the total amount of display memory available and the amount of display memory currently free for a given type of surface.
IDirectDraw::GetCaps	Fills in the capabilities of the device driver for the hardware and the software emulation.
IDirectDraw::GetDeviceIdentifier	Retrieves the current display device's identifying information.
IDirectDraw::GetDisplayMode	Retrieves the current display mode.
IDirectDraw::GetFourCCCodes	Retrieves the FOURCC codes supported by the DirectDraw object. This method can also retrieve the number of codes supported.
IDirectDraw::GetGDISurface	Retrieves the DirectDrawSurface object that currently represents the surface memory that GDI is treating as the primary surface.
IDirectDraw::GetMonitorFrequency	Retrieves the frequency of the monitor being driven by the DirectDraw object.
IDirectDraw::GetScanLine	Retrieves the scan line that is currently being drawn on the monitor.
IDirectDraw::GetSurfaceFromDC	Retrieves the IDirectDrawSurface interface for a surface based on its GDI device context handle.
IDirectDraw::GetVerticalBlankStatus	Retrieves the status of the vertical blank.
IDirectDraw::RestoreAllSurfaces	Restores all the surfaces created for the DirectDraw object, in the order they were created.
IDirectDraw::RestoreDisplayMode	Resets the mode of the display device hardware for the primary surface to what it was before the IDirectDraw::SetDisplayMode method was called. Exclusive-level access is required to use this method.
IDirectDraw::SetCooperativeLevel	Determines the top-level behavior of the application.
IDirectDraw::SetDisplayMode	Sets the mode of the display-device hardware.
IDirectDraw::TestCooperativeLevel	Reports the current cooperative-level status of the DirectDraw device for a windowed or full-screen application.
IDirectDraw::WaitForVerticalBlank	Helps the application synchronize itself with the vertical-blank interval.

Remarks

The IDirectDraw::Initialize method is not supported in Windows Embedded Compact.

You can use the LPDIRECTDRAW to declare a variable that contains a pointer to an IDirectDraw interface. The Ddraw.h header file declares this data type with the following code.

typedef struct IDirectDraw*LPDIRECTDRAW;

Requirements

Header	ddraw.h
Library	ddraw.lib

See Also

Reference

DirectDraw Interfaces
DirectDraw Reference

Other Resources

DirectDraw