DirectDraw and paint something with GDI

Hi guys, I have a question and I think it's not very feasible, I recently started playing with DirectDraw (D2D1) (I was amazed) the question is, can I between cRenderTarget.BeginDraw and cRenderTarget.EndDraw draw something with GDI and GDI+, I know that It doesn't make much sense, I'm making a user control and I would like that within a Paint event the user (programmer) could use bitblt to be able to draw a control over my control.

no, u can not draw like that.
u need to specify the hwnd or bitmap where it will be rendered.
a d2d1.bitmap u can copy it into something else I think. never done it but its possible.
so, u can use d2d1 to draw into a d2d1.bitmap and copy that into something else.
but its wasteful. better work with gdi32 if u want to use hdc

Grace, I'm effectively going to skip this, and I'm going to choose to take working 100% with directdraw.

Later I will have other questions with Directdraw

I did something awhile ago, I wanted to use d2d1&bitblt (to capture the screen in real-time and show it somewhere else)

Code:

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Sub TheLoop()
    Dim cConverter As IWICFormatConverter
    Dim wicBitmap As IWICBitmap
    With Frm
        .running = 1
        Set wicBitmap = cWICFactory.CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP(.mem.hBmp, ByVal 0&, WICBitmapUsePremultipliedAlpha)
        Set cConverter = cWICFactory.CreateFormatConverter()
        cConverter.Initialize wicBitmap, WICPixelFormat32bppPBGRA, WICBitmapDitherTypeNone, Nothing, 0, WICBitmapPaletteTypeMedianCut
        hTarget.BeginDraw
        hTarget.Clear bcolor
        Set hBitmap = hTarget.CreateBitmapFromWicBitmap(ByVal cConverter, ByVal 0&)
        hTarget.DrawBitmap hBitmap, oRect, 1, .scaling, iRect
        hTarget.EndDraw ByVal 0&, ByVal 0&
        Set wicBitmap = Nothing
        Set cConverter = Nothing
        Set hBitmap = Nothing
        BitBlt .mem.hDest, 0, 0, .width, .height, .hdc, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy
        .running = 0
    End With
End Sub

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in the code above u see I have "frm" with a couple of things, heres what they do:

Code:

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Private Sub InitDirect2d()
    Dim cIID(1) As Currency
    Dim HwndRenderTargetProperties As D2D1_HWND_RENDER_TARGET_PROPERTIES
    Dim RenderTargetProperties As D2D1_RENDER_TARGET_PROPERTIES
    Terminate2d
    With Frm
        .mem.hdc = GetDC(0&)
        .mem.hDest = CreateCompatibleDC(.mem.hdc)
        .mem.hBmp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(.mem.hdc, .width, .height)
        SelectObject .mem.hDest, .mem.hBmp
    End With
    GetMem8 547589997359777.4628@, WICPixelFormat32bppPBGRA
    GetMem8 120965351487186.6801@, ByVal VarPtr(WICPixelFormat32bppPBGRA) + 8
    cIID(0) = 506948672004902.9703@: cIID(1) = 53149071617564.8146@
    With HwndRenderTargetProperties
        .hWnd = main.hWnd
        .pixelSize.width = Frm.width
        .pixelSize.height = Frm.height
        .presentOptions = D2D1_PRESENT_OPTIONS_NONE
    End With
    With RenderTargetProperties
        .pixelFormat.Format = DXGI_FORMAT_UNKNOWN
        .pixelFormat.alphaMode = D2D1_ALPHA_MODE_UNKNOWN
        .Type = D2D1_RENDER_TARGET_TYPE_DEFAULT
        .usage = D2D1_RENDER_TARGET_USAGE_NONE
        .minLevel = D2D1_FEATURE_LEVEL_DEFAULT
    End With
    Set cFactory = D2D1CreateFactory(D2D1_FACTORY_TYPE_SINGLE_THREADED, cIID(0), ByVal 0&)
    Set hTarget = cFactory.CreateHwndRenderTarget(RenderTargetProperties, HwndRenderTargetProperties)
    Set cWICFactory = New WICImagingFactory
    hTarget.SetDpi 96, 96
    oRect.Right = Frm.width
    oRect.Bottom = Frm.height
    iRect = oRect
End Sub

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so as u see, u need to do a lot to make it work.

thanks @baka for your time, and yes, doing it that way takes more work