Re: 2D API

Hi,

You might consider reading up on:


http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1434.asp

In addition to that I myself use the following code to write to a texture 
the Area is a pointer to the Rgb values for every next line you need to
add 
pitch bytes.
I don't know it this is actually sup****ted on every video card or what the

performance is but it works on three different nvidia cards.

bool CD3DDisplay::LockView****t( char **Area, long& Pitch )
{
 if( !PanelTexture ) return false;

 D3DLOCKED_RECT LockedRect = { 0 };
 RECT ClientRect = { 0 };
 ClientRect.bottom = GetView****tHeight();
 ClientRect.right = GetView****tWidth();
 if( FAILED( PanelTexture->LockRect( 0, &LockedRect, &ClientRect, 0 ) ) )
 {
  Channel << Level1 << "Could not LockRect textture" << End;
  return false;
 }
 *Area = reinterpret_cast<char*>( LockedRect.pBits );
 Pitch = LockedRect.Pitch;
}

void CD3DDisplay::UnlockView****t()

{

 if( !PanelTexture ) return;

 if( FAILED( PanelTexture->UnlockRect( 0 ) ) )

 {

  Channel << Level1 << "Could not unlock view****t" << End;

 }

}


Regards, Ron AF Greve

http://www.InformationSuperHighway.eu

"SL" <ser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Im looking for a 2D programming API with which you can get a pointer to 
> screen and start drawing on it using that pointer like in the old 
> directdraw.
> Are there any?
>