[SDL] preparing a surface

[Sam Hart]

I was just wondering how I can go about initiallizing a surface with
certain set properties (such as res., bpp, default fill color). The
surface is not to be init'd in a window or loaded from a file.

I want to use this to create a background (actually, layers or bkgs) for
scrolling.

I thought I could use SDL_CreateRGBSurface(), but, if so,  obviously I'm
using it wrong. If this is the function you use, how do you use
it? (Specifically, what are you telling it by passing the RGB and A mask
values... I thought this was a default fill color...)

Thx.

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