Back buffers in windowed DirectDraw

[Riemann]

Near as I can tell, you cannot create a complex primary surface (one which has one or more back buffers) in windowed DirectDraw. Is this the case?

I have a game I am working on now where going Full-Screen will not be a problem. But in the future there is one I would like to write in windowed mode. In that case will I have to just create a surface to use as a back buffer and Draw it into the primary surface every frame?

 

[wyrd]

Yeah, you cant do flipping in windowed mode. So youll have to create a seperate offscreen surface as a backbuffer, and draw it to the primary surface every frame.