Advanced DirectDraw Topics

This section supplements the DirectDraw overview, providing information about advanced DirectDraw issues. The following topics are discussed:

• Mode 13 Support
• Taking Advantage of DMA Support
• Using DirectDraw Palettes in Windowed Mode
• Video-Ports
• Getting the Flip and Blit Status
• Blitting with Color Fill
• Determining the Capabilities of the Display Hardware
• Storing Bitmaps in Display Memory
• Triple Buffering
• DirectDraw Applications and Window Styles
• Matching True RGB Colors to the Frame Buffer's Color Space