C Specification

An application queries if a protected VkSurfaceKHR is displayable on a specific windowing system using VkSurfaceProtectedCapabilitiesKHR, which can be passed in pNext parameter of VkSurfaceCapabilities2KHR.

The VkSurfaceProtectedCapabilitiesKHR structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities
typedef struct VkSurfaceProtectedCapabilitiesKHR {
    VkStructureType    sType;
    void*              pNext;
    VkBool32           supportsProtected;
} VkSurfaceProtectedCapabilitiesKHR;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • supportsProtected specifies whether a protected swapchain created from VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR::surface for a particular windowing system can be displayed on screen or not. If supportsProtected is VK_TRUE, then creation of swapchains with the VK_SWAPCHAIN_CREATE_PROTECTED_BIT_KHR flag set must be supported for surface.

Description

If the VK_GOOGLE_surfaceless_query extension is enabled, the value returned in supportsProtected will be identical for every valid surface created on this physical device, and so in the vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2KHR call, VkPhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR::surface can be VK_NULL_HANDLE. In that case, the contents of VkSurfaceCapabilities2KHR::surfaceCapabilities as well as any other structure chained to it will be undefined.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

See Also

VK_KHR_surface_protected_capabilities, VkBool32, VkStructureType

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

Copyright

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