Detailed Description

Access DirectX utility class.

MD3D9Renderer is a wrapper class to provide access to Maya's DirectX resources.

#include <MD3D9Renderer.h>

Public Member Functions
MStatus	makeSwatchContextCurrent (unsigned int &width, unsigned int &height)
	Create a directX render target (or context) to render into for swatches.
MStatus	setBackgroundColor (const MColor &color)
	Set the back ground color of the swatch.
MStatus	readSwatchContextPixels (MImage &image)
	Reads out the current swatch context color buffer into an image format.
Static Public Member Functions
static MD3D9Renderer *	theRenderer ()
	Returns a static pointer to the hardware renderer wrapper class.

Member Function Documentation

MStatus makeSwatchContextCurrent	(	unsigned int &	width,
		unsigned int &	height
	)

Create a directX render target (or context) to render into for swatches.

Parameters:

[out]	width	The width of the swatch image.
[out]	height	The height of the swatch image.

Returns:

MStatus setBackgroundColor ( const MColor & color )

Set the back ground color of the swatch.

This clear the reading buffer as well.

Parameters:

[in] color The color to which the backgorund color will be set.

Returns:

MStatus readSwatchContextPixels ( MImage & image )

Reads out the current swatch context color buffer into an image format.

Parameters:

[in] image The image to copy the swatch into

Returns:

MD3D9Renderer * theRenderer ( ) [static]

Returns a static pointer to the hardware renderer wrapper class.