## IDirectDrawPalette

Applications use the methods of the IDirectDrawPalette interface to create DirectDrawPalette objects and work with system-level variables. This section is a reference to the methods of this interface. For a conceptual overview, see Palettes.

The methods of the IDirectDrawPalette interface can be organized into the following groups:

Allocating memory | Initialize
Palette capabilities | GetCaps
Palette entries | GetEntries
| SetEntries

The IDirectDrawPalette interface, like all COM interfaces, inherits the IUnknown interface methods. The IUnknown interface supports the following three methods:

AddRef |
QueryInterface |
Release |

You can use the LPDIRECTDRAWPALETTE data type to declare a variable that contains a pointer to an IDirectDrawPalette interface. The Ddraw.h header file declares these data types with the following code:

typedef struct IDirectDrawPalette FAR *LPDIRECTDRAWPALETTE;