• ▼MSDN Library - April 2000
  • ▶Welcome to the MSDN Library
  • ▶Visual Studio 6.0 Documentation
  • ▶Office Developer Documentation
  • ▶Windows CE Documentation
  • ▼Platform SDK
    • ▶Getting Started
    • ▶Design Strategies and Standards
    • ▶Base Services
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      • ▶Broadcast Architecture
      • ▶Image Color Management
      • ▼DirectX
        • ▶DirectX Start Page
        • ▶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
        • ▶DirectX Media SDK
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