does any one know how to initilize directX using hdc? the problem is i want to draw my stuff in a component inside a window and these things usualy only have HDC but DX gets HWND which is assigned to a window.
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does any one know how to initilize directX using hdc? the problem is i want to draw my stuff in a component inside a window and these things usualy only have HDC but DX gets HWND which is assigned to a window.
You can create an invisible window using CreateWindow with 0 width and 0 height and use that hwnd to create the device. Then you can render the images to a texture, retreive the raw buffer from it and pass it to the application where the image is copied to the window. You do no need the HDC too.