Thread: Render to multiple windows in DDraw

I'm using several windows in a DirectDraw (7) program, and I want to render to both. Currently, I can only render to one. If I try to render to the other, the clipper will prevent that or the graphics is incrediblt flickery.

What I do is simply getting the rect of the other window and render to it, but I guess the stuff is actually drawn on the first window.

How do you render to several windows in the same program? Do you need two DirectDraw objects, one for each window?

It depends. Are your multiple windows top-level windows or do you have one parent and then some child windows?

EDIT:

Just try this. Setup your DirectDraw object with your primary surface. Then create your clipper. Now use the method IDirectDrawClipper7::SetClipper to set it to the primary surface. Then just use IDirectDrawClipper7::SetHWnd method to change the window you are blitting to. I don't recommend creating two DirectDraw objects, that is bad news. Let me know if this doesn't work.

It seems to work fine now. Thanks!

Edit: I have one main window and one child.