DirectDraw and RGB macro

[Aardvajk 13212]

I know I should be using Direct3D by now BUT... I was messing about with DirectDrawSurface Blit last night using the colorfill option to fill surfaces with a single colour and I noticed that if I set the COLORREF member of the Blitfx structure with the RGB macro, I have to swap the red and blue components to get the correct colour. I was wondering if this was a peculiarity of my graphics card and whether the same code would produce different colours on different hardware? If so, is there a better way to generate the correct COLORREF? Thanks. Paul

[Guest Anonymous Poster]

The RGB macro is old and is not intended for use with D3D.

The RGB macro returns colors like 0x00BBGGRR (or in memory bytes RGB) while D3D wants 0xAARRGGBB (or BGRA in memory)