1 D3DUT - Direct3D Utility Toolkit

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5 1. Overview

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7 D3DUT is for Direct3D 11, what GLUT is for OpenGL.

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9 In a nutshell, d3dut handles window creation, Direct3D setup, and event handling,

10 in an easy and intuitive way. The API is essentially identical to the GLUT API,

11 allowing you to create multiple D3D windows, and to set up per-window callback

12 functions for event delivery.

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14 Here is a short snippet that shows how to create a Direct3D 11 window and set up

15 event handlers with d3dut (a full example program is included under the example

16 subdirectory):

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18 d3dut_init(&argc, argv);

19 d3dut_init_window_size(800, 600);

20 d3dut_init_display_mode(D3DUT_RGB | D3DUT_DEPTH | D3DUT_DOUBLE);

21 d3dut_create_window("window title");

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23 d3dut_display_func(display);

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25 d3dut_main_loop();

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27 It's that simple, exactly like in GLUT: d3dut_main_loop handles all the event

28 processing, and calls your registered callbacks. After d3dut_create_window the

29 Direct3D device, context and swap chain are completely created and initialized

30 and you may start loading textures, creating vertex buffers, etc.

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33 2. License

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35 Copyright (C) 2013 John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org>

36 D3DUT is free software. Feel free to use it, modify it, and redistribute it

37 under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3, or

38 at your option any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

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40 In simple words, this means that you can link with this library to use it

41 without any restrictions, for either free or proprietary programs, but if you

42 make any modifications and use them in any released program or derivative

43 library, you must release them under these exact same terms.

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45 See COPYING and COPYING.LESSER for the full license text.

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48 3. Contact

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50 Feel free to contact me for any comments or suggestions, bug reports or patches,

51 through email at: nuclear@member.fsf.org.