As I mentioned in an earlier thread I've been working on rendering text with a Device Context. Everything is working fine now, but it would seem that the GetDC() function is really slow. This wouldn't be a problem if I only had to call it once per frame, but apparently I'm not allowed to blit from the surface before I have released the Device Context. If I try I get an exception with the content "One or more surfaces are locked, preventing operation". This means that I will have to get and release the Device Context each time I need to draw some text, and seeing that this process easily takes about 25 ms this quickly becomes a major problem. Is there any way to blit from a surface without releasing the Device Context? If not, can you think of any other way to make this run faster?
Thanks in advance.
Per Rasmussen.
