IDirectDraw4::CreateSurface

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The IDirectDraw4::CreateSurfacemethod creates a DirectDrawSurface object for this DirectDraw object.

HRESULT CreateSurface(
LPDDSURFACEDESC2
lpDDSurfaceDesc2
,
LPDIRECTDRAWSURFACE4 FAR

*
lplpDDSurface
,
IUnknown FAR
*
pUnkOuter
);

Parameters

lpDDSurfaceDesc2

Address of a DDSURFACEDESC2structure that describes the requested surface. You should set any unused members of the DDSURFACEDESC2structure to zero before calling this method. A DDSCAPS2structure is a member of DDSURFACEDESC2.

lplpDDSurface

Address of a variable that will be set to a valid IDirectDrawSurface5interface pointer if the call succeeds.

pUnkOuter

Allows for future compatibility with COM aggregation features. Presently, however, this method will return an error if this parameter is anything but NULL.

Return Values

If the method succeeds, the return value is DD_OK.

If the method fails, the return value may be one of the following error values:

DDERR_INCOMPATIBLEPRIMARY

DDERR_INVALIDCAPS

DDERR_INVALIDOBJECT

DDERR_INVALIDPARAMS

DDERR_INVALIDPIXELFORMAT

DDERR_NOALPHAHW

DDERR_NOCOOPERATIVELEVELSET

DDERR_NODIRECTDRAWHW

DDERR_NOEMULATION