[SDL] Dumping a SDL_Surface to a file?

[David Olofson]

On Monday 17 February 2003 13.42, Johan Persson wrote:
> How do I properly dump a SDL_Surface to a file? I've tried several
> diffrent methods, but I only get 60 bytes of dumped data. I mean,
> that couldn't possible contain the entire chunk of pixel data, or
> could it? What am I doing wrong?

Well, there's more than one memory block to save - but before we start 
talking about that kind of stuff; what do you *actually* want to do? 
Why not just save the surface as an image file of some standard 
format? SDL_SaveBMP() is one way.


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