Surfaces

This section contains information about DirectDrawSurface objects. The following topics are discussed.

• 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
• Private Surface Data
• Surface Uniqueness Values
• Using Non-local Video Memory Surfaces
• Surfaces and Device Contexts