Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I have been studying game programming with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and
DirectX SDK (April 2007), recently. I need to get detailed explanation about
the function named DirectDrawCreateEx. I have tried to find the explanation
about this function in VS help document, MSDN and DirectX SDK help document.
But none of them has given me any answers, yet. Actually I haven't find the
explanation about it, even with select the function name in code editor and
press F1.

Where can I find it? Help me, please. Thank you very much.

Best regards.

Xiaoming

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DirectDraw is quite old and IIRC, is emulated on Vista and subsequent
Windows operating systems anyway.

Why don't you use Direct3D?

Hi Richard,

Many thanks for your help. I have been reading the book "Tricks of The 3D
Game Programming Gurus" by Andre LaMothe. In this book and the accompanying
code, they both refers to the DirectDrawCreateEx function. So I want to get
more detailed explanation about it. Unfortunitely, I get nothing.

Thanks for the links you gave. I will check them out.

Best regards.

Xiaoming

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"Ma Xiaoming" hotmail.com> spake the secret code
thusly:

I think that's quite an old book; however, if it came with a CD, look
for the DirectX SDK on the CD which should include the documentation
for the old DirectDraw stuff.

If you want to learn Direct3D, my book is available for free at the
URL below.

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your help. Nice to meet you. I have already log on your
website, this is awesome! I will definitely learn Direct3D, so I think that
your book will helps me much. Thanks again.

Best regards.

Xiaoming