[SDL] Restoring lost surfaces...

[Darrell Walisser]

On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 12:02 PM, Gaëtan de Menten wrote:

>>  From what I have read recently on this list (check the archives to
>> verify this) SDL doesn't restore  hardware surfaces that go away. You
>> can check for SDL_ACTIVEEVENT  to detect when someone alt-tabbed away
>> from or to your application, and recreate the surfaces.
> I don't know anything on this topic but... Couldn't this be done by SDL
> internally?

Perhaps. But the problem may be that there is no way to know if the 
surface has vanished or not. I may be imagining things here, but that's 
the impression I got from a past email on this topic.

-D