[SDL] Separating Window Management from Display Surfaces

[Torsten Giebl]

Hello !


But what is the representation
of a DisplaySurface on a system like for example Win32 or
Linux ?

If you want to have a DisplaySurface you can just create an Empty
Surface and blit everything to it. There would be no difference
between a DisplaySurface and a normal Surface.

When integrating SDL into GTK or other Toolkits,
you have two ways :

Blit everything into a surface and then
use a function from the Toolkit like draw_image (buffer,x,y)
or you can let the toolkit create a borderless integrated window
somehow and use that.

When the data is not updated 50times a second or so,
the first method works great.


CU