SDL_Surface

Name

SDL_Surface -- Graphical Surface Structure

Structure Definition

typedef struct SDL_Surface {
        Uint32 flags;                           /* Read-only */
        SDL_PixelFormat *format;                /* Read-only */
        int w, h;                               /* Read-only */
        Uint16 pitch;                           /* Read-only */
        void *pixels;                           /* Read-write */

        /* clipping information */
        SDL_Rect clip_rect;                     /* Read-only */

        /* Reference count -- used when freeing surface */
        int refcount;                           /* Read-mostly */

	/* This structure also contains private fields not shown here */
} SDL_Surface;

Structure Data

flagsSurface flags
formatPixel format
w, hWidth and height of the surface
pitchLength of a surface scanline in bytes
pixelsPointer to the actual pixel data
clip_rectsurface clip rectangle

Description

SDL_Surface's represent areas of "graphical" memory, memory that can be drawn to. The video framebuffer is returned as a SDL_Surface by SDL_SetVideoMode and SDL_GetVideoSurface. Most of the fields should be pretty obvious. w and h are the width and height of the surface in pixels. pixels is a pointer to the actual pixel data, the surface should be locked before accessing this field. The clip_rect field is the clipping rectangle as set by SDL_SetClipRect.

The following are supported in the flags field.

SDL_SWSURFACESurface is stored in system memory
SDL_HWSURFACESurface is stored in video memory
SDL_ASYNCBLITSurface uses asynchronous blits if possible
SDL_ANYFORMATAllows any pixel-format (Display surface)
SDL_HWPALETTESurface has exclusive palette
SDL_DOUBLEBUFSurface is double buffered (Display surface)
SDL_FULLSCREENSurface is full screen (Display Surface)
SDL_OPENGLSurface has an OpenGL context (Display Surface)
SDL_OPENGLBLITSurface supports OpenGL blitting (Display Surface)
SDL_RESIZABLESurface is resizable (Display Surface)
SDL_HWACCELSurface blit uses hardware acceleration
SDL_SRCCOLORKEYSurface use colorkey blitting
SDL_RLEACCELColorkey blitting is accelerated with RLE
SDL_SRCALPHASurface blit uses alpha blending
SDL_PREALLOCSurface uses preallocated memory

See Also

SDL_PixelFormat