The information in this section pertains only to applications written in C and C++. See DirectDraw Visual Basic Tutorials.

To use DirectDraw, you first create an instance of the DirectDraw object, which represents the display adapter on the computer. You then use the interface methods to manipulate the object. In addition, you need to create one or more instances of a DirectDrawSurface object to be able to display your application on a graphics surface.

To demonstrate this, the DDEx1 sample included with this SDK performs the following steps.

• Step 1: Create a DirectDraw Object
• Step 2: Determine the Application's Behavior
• Step 3: Change the Display Mode
• Step 4: Create Flipping Surfaces
• Step 5: Write to the Surface
• Step 6: Flip the Surfaces
• Step 7: Deallocate the DirectDraw Objects

Note  To use GUIDs successfully in your applications, you must either define INITGUID prior to all other include and define statements, or you must link to the Dxguid.lib library. You should define INITGUID in only one of your source modules.