IDirect3DDevice9 interface (d3d9helper.h)
Applications use the methods of the IDirect3DDevice9 interface to perform DrawPrimitive-based rendering, create resources, work with system-level variables, adjust gamma ramp levels, work with palettes, and create shaders.
Inheritance
The IDirect3DDevice9 interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IDirect3DDevice9 also has these types of members:
Methods
The IDirect3DDevice9 interface has these methods.
| IDirect3DDevice9::BeginScene The IDirect3DDevice9::BeginScene method (d3d9.h) begins a scene. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::BeginStateBlock The IDirect3DDevice9::BeginStateBlock method (d3d9.h) signals Direct3D to begin recording a device-state block. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::Clear The IDirect3DDevice9::Clear method (d3d9.h) clears one or more surfaces such as a render target, multiple render targets, a stencil buffer, or a depth buffer. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::ColorFill The IDirect3DDevice9::ColorFill method (d3d9.h) allows an application to fill a rectangular area of a D3DPOOL_DEFAULT surface with a specified color. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateAdditionalSwapChain The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateAdditionalSwapChain method (d3d9.h) creates an additional swap chain for rendering multiple views. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateCubeTexture The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateCubeTexture method (d3d9helper.h) creates a cube texture resource. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateDepthStencilSurface The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateDepthStencilSurface method (d3d9helper.h) creates a depth-stencil resource. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateIndexBuffer The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateIndexBuffer method (d3d9helper.h) creates an index buffer. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateOffscreenPlainSurface The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateOffscreenPlainSurface method (d3d9helper.h) creates an off-screen surface. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreatePixelShader The IDirect3DDevice9::CreatePixelShader method (d3d9.h) creates a pixel shader. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateQuery The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateQuery method (d3d9helper.h) creates a status query. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateRenderTarget The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateRenderTarget method (d3d9helper.h) creates a render-target surface. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateStateBlock The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateStateBlock method (d3d9helper.h) creates a new state block containing the values for all device states, vertex-related states, or pixel-related states. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture method (d3d9helper.h) creates a texture resource. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVertexBuffer The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVertexBuffer method (d3d9helper.h) creates a vertex buffer. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVertexDeclaration The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVertexDeclaration method (d3d9helper.h) creates a vertex shader declaration from the device and the vertex elements. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVertexShader The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVertexShader method (d3d9helper.h) creates a vertex shader. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVolumeTexture The IDirect3DDevice9::CreateVolumeTexture method (d3d9helper.h) creates a volume texture resource. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DeletePatch The IDirect3DDevice9::DeletePatch method (d3d9helper.h) frees a cached high-order patch. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DrawIndexedPrimitive The IDirect3DDevice9::DrawIndexedPrimitive method (d3d9helper.h) renders the specified geometric primitive into an array of vertices. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP The IDirect3DDevice9::DrawIndexedPrimitiveUP method (d3d9helper.h) renders the specified geometric primitive with data specified by a user memory pointer. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DrawPrimitive The IDirect3DDevice9::DrawPrimitive method (d3d9helper.h) renders a sequence of non-indexed, geometric primitives of the specified type from the current set of data input streams. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DrawPrimitiveUP The IDirect3DDevice9::DrawPrimitiveUP method (d3d9helper.h) renders data specified by a user memory pointer as a sequence of geometric primitives of the specified type. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DrawRectPatch The IDirect3DDevice9::DrawRectPatch method (d3d9helper.h) draws a rectangular patch using the currently set streams. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::DrawTriPatch The IDirect3DDevice9::DrawTriPatch method (d3d9.h) draws a triangular patch using the currently set streams. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::EndScene The IDirect3DDevice9::EndScene method (d3d9.h) ends a scene that was begun by calling IDirect3DDevice9::BeginScene. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::EndStateBlock The IDirect3DDevice9::EndStateBlock method (d3d9.h) signals Direct3D to stop recording a device-state block and retrieve a pointer to the state block interface. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::EvictManagedResources The IDirect3DDevice9::EvictManagedResources method (d3d9.h) evicts all managed resources, including both Direct3D and driver-managed resources. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetAvailableTextureMem The IDirect3DDevice9::GetAvailableTextureMem method (d3d9.h) returns an estimate of the amount of available texture memory. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetBackBuffer The IDirect3DDevice9::GetBackBuffer method (d3d9.h) retrieves a back buffer from the device's swap chain. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetClipPlane The IDirect3DDevice9::GetClipPlane method (d3d9.h) retrieves the coefficients of a user-defined clipping plane for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetClipStatus The IDirect3DDevice9::GetClipStatus method (d3d9.h) retrieves the clip status. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetCreationParameters The IDirect3DDevice9::GetCreationParameters method (d3d9.h) retrieves the creation parameters of the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetCurrentTexturePalette The IDirect3DDevice9::GetCurrentTexturePalette method (d3d9.h) retrieves the current texture palette. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetDepthStencilSurface The IDirect3DDevice9::GetDepthStencilSurface method (d3d9.h) gets the depth-stencil surface owned by the Direct3DDevice object. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetDeviceCaps The IDirect3DDevice9::GetDeviceCaps method (d3d9.h) retrieves the capabilities of the rendering device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetDirect3D The IDirect3DDevice9::GetDirect3D method (d3d9.h) returns an interface to the instance of the Direct3D object that created the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetDisplayMode The IDirect3DDevice9::GetDisplayMode method (d3d9.h) retrieves the display mode's spatial resolution, color resolution, and refresh frequency. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetFrontBufferData The IDirect3DDevice9::GetFrontBufferData method (d3d9.h) generates a copy of the device's front buffer and places that copy in a system memory buffer provided by the application. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetFVF The IDirect3DDevice9::GetFVF method (d3d9.h) gets the fixed vertex function declaration. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetGammaRamp The IDirect3DDevice9::GetGammaRamp method (d3d9.h) retrieves the gamma correction ramp for the swap chain. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetIndices The IDirect3DDevice9::GetIndices method (d3d9.h) retrieves index data. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetLight The IDirect3DDevice9::GetLight method (d3d9.h) retrieves a set of lighting properties that this device uses. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetLightEnable The IDirect3DDevice9::GetLightEnable method (d3d9.h) retrieves the activity status of enabled or disabled, for a set of lighting parameters within a device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetMaterial The IDirect3DDevice9::GetMaterial method (d3d9.h) retrieves the current material properties for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetNPatchMode The IDirect3DDevice9::GetNPatchMode method (d3d9.h) gets the N-patch mode segments. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetNumberOfSwapChains The IDirect3DDevice9::GetNumberOfSwapChains method (d3d9.h) gets the number of implicit swap chains. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetPaletteEntries The IDirect3DDevice9::GetPaletteEntries method (d3d9.h) retrieves palette entries. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShader The IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShader method (d3d9.h) retrieves the currently set pixel shader. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShaderConstantB The IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShaderConstantB method (d3d9.h) gets a Boolean shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShaderConstantF The IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShaderConstantF method (d3d9.h) gets a floating-point shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShaderConstantI The IDirect3DDevice9::GetPixelShaderConstantI method (d3d9.h) gets an integer shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetRasterStatus The IDirect3DDevice9::GetRasterStatus method (d3d9.h) returns information describing the raster of the monitor on which the swap chain is presented. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderState The IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderState method (d3d9.h) retrieves a render-state value for a device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderTarget The IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderTarget method (d3d9.h) retrieves a render-target surface. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderTargetData The IDirect3DDevice9::GetRenderTargetData method (d3d9.h) copies the render-target data from device memory to system memory. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetSamplerState The IDirect3DDevice9::GetSamplerState method (d3d9.h) gets the sampler state value. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetScissorRect The IDirect3DDevice9::GetScissorRect method (d3d9.h) gets the scissor rectangle. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetSoftwareVertexProcessing the IDirect3DDevice9::GetSoftwareVertexProcessing method (d3d9.h) gets the vertex hardware or software processing mode. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetStreamSource The IDirect3DDevice9::GetStreamSource method (d3d9.h) retrieves a vertex buffer bound to the specified data stream. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetStreamSourceFreq The IDirect3DDevice9::GetStreamSourceFreq method (d3d9.h) gets the stream source frequency divider value. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetSwapChain The IDirect3DDevice9::GetSwapChain method (d3d9.h) gets a pointer to a swap chain. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetTexture The IDirect3DDevice9::GetTexture method (d3d9.h) retrieves a texture assigned to a stage for a device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetTextureStageState The IDirect3DDevice9::GetTextureStageState method (d3d9.h) retrieves a state value for an assigned texture. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetTransform The IDirect3DDevice9::GetTransform method (d3d9.h) retrieves a matrix describing a transformation state. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexDeclaration The IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexDeclaration method (d3d9.h) gets a vertex shader declaration. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShader The IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShader method (d3d9.h) retrieves the currently set vertex shader. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShaderConstantB The IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShaderConstantB method (d3d9.h) gets a Boolean vertex shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShaderConstantF The IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShaderConstantF method (d3d9.h) gets a floating-point vertex shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShaderConstantI The IDirect3DDevice9::GetVertexShaderConstantI method (d3d9.h) gets an integer vertex shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::GetViewport The IDirect3DDevice9::GetViewport method (d3d9.h) retrieves the viewport parameters currently set for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::LightEnable The IDirect3DDevice9::LightEnable method (d3d9.h) enables or disables a set of lighting parameters within a device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::MultiplyTransform The IDirect3DDevice9::MultiplyTransform method (d3d9.h) multiplies a device's world, view, or projection matrices by a specified matrix. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::Present The IDirect3DDevice9::Present method (d3d9.h) presents the contents of the next buffer in the sequence of back buffers owned by the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::ProcessVertices The IDirect3DDevice9::ProcessVertices method (d3d9.h) applies the vertex processing defined by the vertex shader to the set of input data streams. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::Reset The IDirect3DDevice9::Reset method (d3d9.h) resets the type, size, and format of the swap chain. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetClipPlane The IDirect3DDevice9::SetClipPlane method (d3d9.h) sets the coefficients of a user-defined clipping plane for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetClipStatus The IDirect3DDevice9::SetClipStatus method (d3d9.h) sets the clip status. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetCurrentTexturePalette The IDirect3DDevice9::SetCurrentTexturePalette method (d3d9.h) sets the current texture palette. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetCursorPosition The IDirect3DDevice9::SetCursorPosition method (d3d9.h) sets the cursor position and update options. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetCursorProperties The IDirect3DDevice9::SetCursorProperties method (d3d9.h) sets properties for the cursor. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetDepthStencilSurface The IDirect3DDevice9::SetDepthStencilSurface method (d3d9.h) sets the depth stencil surface. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetDialogBoxMode The IDirect3DDevice9::SetDialogBoxMode method (d3d9.h) allows the use of GDI dialog boxes in full-screen mode applications. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetFVF The IDirect3DDevice9::SetFVF method (d3d9.h) sets the current vertex stream declaration. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetGammaRamp The IDirect3DDevice9::SetGammaRamp method (d3d9helper.h) sets the gamma correction ramp for the implicit swap chain. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetIndices The IDirect3DDevice9::SetIndices method (d3d9helper.h) sets index data. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetLight The IDirect3DDevice9::SetLight method (d3d9helper.h) assigns a set of lighting properties for this device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetMaterial The IDirect3DDevice9::SetMaterial method (d3d9helper.h) sets the material properties for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetNPatchMode The IDirect3DDevice9::SetNPatchMode method (d3d9helper.h) enables or disables N-patches. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetPaletteEntries IDirect3DDevice9::SetPaletteEntries method (d3d9helper.h) sets palette entries. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShader The IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShader method (d3d9helper.h) sets the current pixel shader to a previously created pixel shader. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantB The IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantB method (d3d9helper.h) sets a Boolean shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantF The IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantF method (d3d9helper.h) sets a floating-point shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantI The IDirect3DDevice9::SetPixelShaderConstantI method (d3d9helper.h) sets an integer shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetRenderState The IDirect3DDevice9::SetRenderState method (d3d9helper.h) sets a single device render-state parameter. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetRenderTarget The IDirect3DDevice9::SetRenderTarget method (d3d9helper.h) sets a new color buffer for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetSamplerState The IDirect3DDevice9::SetSamplerState method (d3d9helper.h) sets the sampler state value. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetScissorRect The IDirect3DDevice9::SetScissorRect method (d3d9helper.h) sets the scissor rectangle. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetSoftwareVertexProcessing The IDirect3DDevice9::SetSoftwareVertexProcessing method (d3d9helper.h) switches between software and hardware vertex processing. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetStreamSource The IDirect3DDevice9::SetStreamSource method (d3d9helper.h) binds a vertex buffer to a device data stream. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetStreamSourceFreq The IDirect3DDevice9::SetStreamSourceFreq method (d3d9helper.h) sets the stream source frequency divider value. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetTexture The IDirect3DDevice9::SetTexture method (d3d9helper.h) assigns a texture to a stage for a device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetTextureStageState IDirect3DDevice9::SetTextureStageState method (d3d9helper.h) sets the state value for the currently assigned texture. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetTransform The IDirect3DDevice9::SetTransform method (d3d9helper.h) sets a single device transformation-related state. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexDeclaration The IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexDeclaration method (d3d9helper.h) sets a Vertex Declaration (Direct3D 9). |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShader The IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShader method (d3d9helper.h) sets the vertex shader. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShaderConstantB The IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShaderConstantB method (d3d9helper.h) sets a Boolean vertex shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShaderConstantF The IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShaderConstantF method (d3d9helper.h) sets a floating-point vertex shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShaderConstantI The IDirect3DDevice9::SetVertexShaderConstantI method (d3d9helper.h) sets an integer vertex shader constant. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::SetViewport The IDirect3DDevice9::SetViewport method (d3d9helper.h) sets the viewport parameters for the device. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::ShowCursor The IDirect3DDevice9::ShowCursor method (d3d9helper.h) displays or hides the cursor. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::StretchRect The IDirect3DDevice9::StretchRect method (d3d9helper.h) copies the contents of the source rectangle to the destination rectangle. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::TestCooperativeLevel The IDirect3DDevice9::TestCooperativeLevel method (d3d9helper.h) reports the current cooperative-level status of the Direct3D device for a windowed or full-screen application. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::UpdateSurface The IDirect3DDevice9::UpdateSurface method (d3d9helper.h) copies rectangular subsets of pixels from one surface to another. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::UpdateTexture The IDirect3DDevice9::UpdateTexture method (d3d9helper.h) updates the dirty portions of a texture. |
| IDirect3DDevice9::ValidateDevice The IDirect3DDevice9::ValidateDevice method (d3d9helper.h) reports the device's ability to render the current texture-blending operations and arguments in a pass. |
Remarks
The IDirect3DDevice9 interface is obtained by calling the IDirect3D9::CreateDevice method.
This interface, like all COM interfaces, inherits the IUnknown interface methods.
The LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 and PDIRECT3DDEVICE9 types are defined as pointers to the IDirect3DDevice9 interface.
typedef struct IDirect3DDevice9 *LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9, *PDIRECT3DDEVICE9;
Requirements
| Requirement | Value |
|---|---|
| Target Platform | Windows |
| Header | d3d9helper.h (include D3D9.h) |
See also
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