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The Microsoft Windows display driver manages all screen output for Windows
applications. A display driver provides a set of functions that Windows uses
to enable the display hardware, retrieve information about the display, and
draw text and graphics.
 
The following topics provide useful information about display drivers:
 
◄About the Display Driver►
    ◄Display-Driver Initialization►
    ◄GDI Information Structure►
    ◄Enabling and Disabling the Physical Device►
    ◄Hardware Initialization►
    ◄Physical Objects►
    ◄Physical Colors►
    ◄Screen Metrics►
    ◄Lines, Curves, and Polygons►
    ◄Text►
    ◄Fonts►
    ◄Clipping►
    ◄Bitmaps►
    ◄Device-Independent Bitmaps►
    ◄Device Bitmaps►
    ◄Color Palettes►
    ◄DIBs with Color-Palette Management►
    ◄Stub Functions►
    ◄Cursor►
    ◄Display-Driver Escapes►
    ◄Mouse Trails►
    ◄Multiple-Resolution Drivers►
    ◄Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing Extensions►
◄About Display-Driver Resources►
    ◄Stock-Fonts Resource►
    ◄Configuration Resource►
    ◄Color-Table Resource►
    ◄Icon, Cursor, and Bitmap Resources►
    ◄Large Icons and Cursors►
    ◄Optimizing Performance►
◄Display-Specific Functions►
◄Graphics Driver Functions►
 
 
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