Package com.ms.com.directX

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About the DirectX Package

The Microsoft® DirectX™ package provides the classes and interfaces needed by Java programs and applets to access the services and features of the DirectX™ Component Object Model (COM) interface for Microsoft® Windows® . This article presents the DirectX™ classes, and identifies and provides detailed information about the methods and fields of these classes.

Note This article does not explain how to use the DirectX™ classes. For overview information about how to use DirectX™, see the DirectX™ Software Development Kit (SDK). In some cases, you may need to refer to the Microsoft Win32 SDK for full details about selected structures.

This article has the following sections:

DirectX Classes	Lists the DirectX™ classes and describes their methods.
DirectX Final Classes	Lists the final classes that are used by the DirectX™ classes.
DirectX Callback Interfaces	Lists the DirectX™ interfaces used to implement callback functions for DirectX™ methods.
DirectX Interfaces	Lists the DirectX™ interfaces from which DirectX™ classes are implemented.
Interface ddConstants	Lists the values used in the methods and fields of DirectX™ classes.

Important Unlike their counterparts in COM, DirectX™ methods in Java do not return HRESULT error values. At best, a method will indicate whether a call to it succeeded or failed; the exact cause of an error is not available. Although you can catch the ComException exception to determine whether a DirectX™ method failed, the getHResult method of this exception does not specify the exact cause of the error.