DIB Engine, some summarization

[Daniel Remenak]

On 2/12/07, Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
> Am Montag 12 Februar 2007 19:54 schrieb Daniel Remenak:
> > On 2/11/07, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What about the case where you draw with GDI, then render with OpenGL
> > > on top of that, then draw on top of that with GDI, then swap buffers?
> > > If you draw only client-side, you have to copy to the server, then
> > > copy back, then copy to the server *again*. You have to upload or
> > > download the image *every time* you go between OpenGL and GDI drawing,
> > > whereas when you draw with X11, there is no uploads/downloads unless
> > > you use DIB sections and draw directly.
> >
> > Not that it's relevant to this conversation (since wine needs to
> > support legacy apps), but just so you know, even Microsoft no longer
> > supports this sample scenario.  Drawing with GDI over OpenGL (or DX),
> > and reading from the GDI buffer on a hardware-accelerated window, are
> > both undefined (officially "not supported") operations on Windows
> > Vista.  Caused a ton of problems for my company's product
>
> So IDirect3DSurface9::GetDC does not work any longer? (Or
> IDirectDrawSurface7::GetDC)
>
> /me parties!
>
>

Unfortunately, no; it looks like you can still render GDI onto a DX
surface, just not directly onto a window which is also being rendered
to by DX.

>From the linked blog article:
"Note that there is an alternative that can often work for an
application -- DirectX is capable of handing back a DC to a DirectX
surface, and applications can perform GDI rendering to that DC.  From
the DWM's perspective, that DirectX surface remains purely rendered by
DirectX, and all is well."

--Daniel Remenak