DirectX and GDI

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I would just like to confirm that DirectX and GDI are completely separate libraries? That is, no element of DirectX uses GDI and vice versa?

Posted 20-Oct-10 22:52pm

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Saurabh.Garg · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-21T01:58:00

You should compare Direct2D with GDI, instead if entire DirectX. Because there are components in DirectX for example DirectSound which has nothing to do with 2D graphics.

Yes Direct2D and GDI are completely separate libraries. As far as I know anyone of them do not depend on the other. There is some discussion about GDI and Direct2D on this page:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/directx/archive/2009/09/29/comparing-direct2d-and-gdi.aspx[^]

-Saurabh