• ▼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
      • ▶Component Services
      • ▶Data Access Services
      • ▼Graphics and Multimedia Services
        • ▶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
                  • When Reference Counts Will Change
                  • Reference Counts for Complex Surfaces
                  • Releasing Surfaces
                • Enumerating Surfaces
                • Updating Surface Characteristics
                • Accessing Surface Memory Directly
                • ▶Gamma and Color Controls
                • ▶Overlay Surfaces
                • ▶Compressed Texture Surfaces
                • 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
        • ▶Windows Media Services
        • ▶Windows Media Encoder
        • ▶Windows Media Player Control
        • ▶Windows Media Format SDK
        • ▶NetShow Theater Server Administration
        • ▶OpenGL
        • ▶Still Image
        • ▶Windows GDI
        • ▶Windows Multimedia
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