[SDL] SDL Not Displaying

[Bryan Arant]

SDL_Flip(screen_surface_here);

I also posted on Gamedev for you - I just don't know which one you'll get
first :)

-Bryan / AfroFire / Brin

On 7/4/07, Benjamin Towal <btowal2 at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm writing a game that is spread out across header files and
> implementation files. Currently it has a menu screen (handled by one
> header-
> implementation pair) and a gameplay mode (handled by another). SDL setup
> functions, keyboard event handling functions and the functions to display
> things on screen (SDL_BlitSurface, SDL_FillRect, etc.) are located in a
> base
> class, which the menu and gameplay classes inherit from. For some reason,
> the
> SDL initialization and SDL keyboard handling functions work properly, but
> the
> display functions do not. Just a black screen comes up, and nothing draws
> at
> any point during runtime. Absolutely no compiler errors are found,
> everything
> runs, no unexpected shutdowns. In my menu, "Exit" is the last option, and
> if i
> hit the down arrow a bunch of times then press enter, the program does
> exit, so
> other SDL features are working (SDL_GetKeystate and events). It's just for
> some
> strange reason nothing but this black screen opens. Has anybody ever heard
> of
> anything like this? If anyone's interested in attempting, i can post my
> code
> too; i realize it's hard to troubleshoot without the code but i don't want
> to
> unnecessarily spam up your space either. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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