Designing a UI Screen
Undoubtedly you've seen some type of UI before while using your computer. Windows has plenty of resources built into the GDI, which ships as part of the operating system to build rich graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, these interfaces don't translate well into the full-screen DirectX applications. When running your game in full screen, you don't want an extra window (that looks nothing like the rest of your application) popping up. At best, it's not appealing; at worst, it can cause your main application to minimize or have other problems.
To present a consistent look and feel throughout an application, most game developers actually design a completely new UI to meld with the rest of the games they are developing. ...
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