13.5. Creating Objects

Classes have two functions relevant to object creation, Create and Construct. To create a new object, the class' Create function is called. It allocates enough memory for IDirectDrawImpl or IDirectDrawSurfaceImpl as well as the private data for derived classes and then calls Construct.

Each class's Construct function calls the base class's Construct, then does the necessary initialization.

For example, creating a primary surface with the user ddraw driver calls User_DirectDrawSurface_Create which allocates memory for the object and calls User_DirectDrawSurface_Construct to initialize it. This calls DIB_DirectDrawSurface_Construct which calls Main_DirectDrawSurface_Construct.