Direct Draw and MFC

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by Galileo430 July 28, 2001 10:16 PM

1 comment, last by Galileo430 22 years, 9 months ago

Galileo430

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July 28, 2001 10:16 PM

Does anyone know of any issues with Direct Draw and MFC?

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jaxson

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July 29, 2001 01:17 AM

Well, since MFC uses the GDI to draw everything, you''ll probably have a bunch of problems unless you make a lot of custom controls that implement their own ways of handling erase background, draw item, and paint messages.

S1CA

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July 29, 2001 07:38 AM

There aren''t any problems with DDraw and MFC - theres even samples in the SDK demonstrating using the two together (DX8 its D3D which contains DDraw and in <=DX7 the samples show actual DDraw)

If you mean use MFC controls in a fullscreen exclusive environment, then forget it - as the poster above says they''re all GDI drawn.

If you mean the other way round where a DDraw surface is drawn onto an MFC control in a windowed mode app, thats not a problem. The control is still a window which you can draw on top of.

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