High Performance Windows Graphics Programming: Your High-End Guide for Creating Fast, High-Impact Graphics with Microsoft's DirectDraw API

Covers basic to advanced topics, including optimization, true-color display modes, alpha blending, and key framing. Includes lots of ready-to-run optimized graphics programs that readers can modify to use in their own applications. Features custom-written Visual C++ AppWizard that lets readers create full-fledged DirectDraw applications from within Visual C++. Provides ready-to-use C++ and MFC routines.