• ▼Microsoft DirectX 7.0
  • Legal Information
  • ▶Introducing DirectX Foundation
  • ▶Direct3D
  • ▼DirectDraw
    • About DirectDraw
    • Why Use DirectDraw?
    • ▶Getting Started: Basic Graphics Concepts
    • ▶DirectDraw Architecture
    • ▼DirectDraw Essentials
      • ▶Cooperative Levels
      • ▶Display Modes
      • ▶The DirectDraw Object
      • ▼Surfaces
        • ▶Basic Concepts of Surfaces
        • ▶Creating Surfaces
        • Flipping Surfaces
        • ▶Blitting to Surfaces
        • Losing and Restoring Surfaces
        • ▶COM Reference Count Semantics for Surfaces
        • Enumerating Surfaces
        • Updating Surface Characteristics
        • Accessing Surface Memory Directly
        • ▶Gamma and Color Controls
        • ▶Overlay Surfaces
        • ▼Compressed Texture Surfaces
          • Creating Compressed Textures
          • Decompressing Compressed Textures
          • Transparency in Blits to Compressed Textures
          • ▼Compressed Texture Formats
            • Opaque and One-bit Alpha Textures
            • Textures with Alpha Channels
        • Private Surface Data
        • Surface Uniqueness Values
        • Using Non-local Video Memory Surfaces
        • ▶Surfaces and Device Contexts
      • ▶Palettes
      • ▶Clippers
      • ▶Multiple-Monitor Systems
      • ▶Advanced DirectDraw Topics
    • ▶DirectDraw Tutorials
    • ▶DirectDraw Reference
    • ▶DirectDraw Tools and Samples
  • ▶DirectInput
  • ▶DirectMusic
  • ▶DirectPlay
  • ▶DirectSetup
  • ▶DirectSound
  • ▶Glossary
  • ▶Appendix