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SDL_Surface

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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

	flags		Surface flags
	format		Pixel format
	w, h		Width and height of the surface
	pitch		Length of a surface scanline in bytes
	pixels		Pointer to the actual pixel data
	clip_rect		surface 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_SWSURFACE		Surface is stored in system memory
	SDL_HWSURFACE		Surface is stored in video memory
	SDL_ASYNCBLIT		Surface uses asynchronous blits if possible
	SDL_ANYFORMAT		Allows any pixel-format (Display surface)
	SDL_HWPALETTE		Surface has exclusive palette
	SDL_DOUBLEBUF		Surface is double buffered (Display surface)
	SDL_FULLSCREEN		Surface is full screen (Display Surface)
	SDL_OPENGL		Surface has an OpenGL context (Display Surface)
	SDL_OPENGLBLIT		Surface supports OpenGL blitting (Display Surface)
	SDL_RESIZABLE		Surface is resizable (Display Surface)
	SDL_HWACCEL		Surface blit uses hardware acceleration
	SDL_SRCCOLORKEY		Surface use colorkey blitting
	SDL_RLEACCEL		Colorkey blitting is accelerated with RLE
	SDL_SRCALPHA		Surface blit uses alpha blending
	SDL_PREALLOC		Surface uses preallocated memory

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