Direct Draw Clipper Question

To detach a clipper once it's set call the SetClipper function of the primary surface, passing NULL. Why would you want or need to though? To use a clipper follow these steps:

1) Call the CreateClipper function of the DirectDraw object
2) Call the SetHWnd function of the clipper object
3) Call the SetClipper function of the primary surface object

Hope this helps.

Breakaway Games

Edited by - Machaira on 1/18/00 11:56:43 AM

I need to do this because I''m using the level editor mappy to create my levels. The editor comes with a library to load and render the levels created with it but for some odd reason they refuse to work when a clipper is attached. So I''ll just attach the clipper to the back surface, detach it before using the mappy functions and reattach it after.

I''m a bit confused about your explanation though. I''m attaching the clipper to the back surface so do I send the NULL to the BACK surface or the PRIMARY surface?

Thanks a ton

Send the NULL to the back surface.

Beware: Attaching and Detaching clippers is *really* slow...

Mason McCuskey
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