[color=#000000][font=Arial,]I can't seem to draw to the screen at all. When I call SDL_BlitSurface, nothing happens. However, it does not return an error code. I've written a class to handle image sprites, and when I step through with a debugger, I see it is returning non-empty values for the surface to blit to the main video surface. When I call my draw function, however, it does nothing. I have confirmed that the pixel values are not changed at all for the surface. What am I doing wrong?[/font]

[color=#000000][font=Arial,]Here's my main.cpp:[/font]

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[color=#000000][font=Arial,]//Standard libs
#include <SDL.h>

//Our gaming base
#include "game_base.h"

//SDL redefines main as winmain, but this is a console application so we don't want that
#undef main

const int MAX_FPS = 80; ///< The maximum frames per second for the game

int main ( int argc, char* argv[] ) {
//Initialization
System game( false, 640, 480, "Platformer", MAX_FPS ); //Create a game that is not fullscreen with a resolution of 640x480
SDL_Surface *buffer = NULL;
Input *input = NULL;
Image_Sprite *player_sprite = NULL;

buffer = game.get_buffer();
player_sprite = new Image_Sprite( "data/player.bmp", 1, 4 );

//Setup the hitbox for the player
SDL_Rect hitbox;
hitbox.w = 32;
hitbox.h = 32;
hitbox.x = 0;
hitbox.y = 0;

Player player( 100, 100, hitbox, 1.0, RIGHT, player_sprite ); //Initialize the player at (100, 100)

//Main game loop
while( !game.check_is_done() ) {
game.refresh_top();
player.draw( buffer );
game.refresh_bottom();
}

//Cleanup
delete player_sprite;
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[color=#000000][font=Arial,]My draw method looks like this:[/font]

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[color=#000000][color=#000000][font=Arial,]void Character::draw( SDL_Surface *destination ) {
SDL_Rect coordinates;
SDL_Surface *sprite;
sprite = my_sprite->get_frame( my_frame, my_direction );
coordinates.x = (int)get_x();
coordinates.y = (int)get_y();

SDL_BlitSurface( sprite, NULL, destination, NULL );

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[color=#000000][font=Arial,]And my get_frame method is this:[/font]

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[color=#000000][color=#000000][font=Arial,]SDL_Surface* Image_Sprite::get_frame( int x, int y ) {
SDL_PixelFormat *format;
format = my_sprite->format;
SDL_Surface *frame = SDL_CreateRGBSurface( my_sprite->flags, my_frame_width, my_frame_height, format->BitsPerPixel,
format->Rmask, format->Gmask, format->Bmask, format->Amask );
SDL_Rect *frame_crop = new SDL_Rect;
frame_crop->x = my_frame_width * x;
frame_crop->y = my_frame_height * y;
frame_crop->w = my_frame_width;
frame_crop->h = my_frame_height;

SDL_Rect *coordinates = new SDL_Rect;
coordinates->x = 0;
coordinates->y = 0;

SDL_BlitSurface( my_sprite, frame_crop, frame, coordinates );

delete frame_crop;
return frame;

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[color=#000000]The funny thing is, this code is almost directly copied from another project where it worked fine. And yes, I am calling SDL_Init(), SDL_Quit, and SDL_Flip(). They're all part of my System class. Any help would be appreciated. I tried solving this myself, but I'm stumped.

Alright, I figured it out. I wasn't initializing my_direction, so I was getting nonsense values for where to crop the image.

Don't forget that you are also not initializing the w and h fields in the SDL_Rect named coordinates, so attempting to blit a square of unknown dimensions would invoke undefined behavior.

Gah, foiled. I must have mistook it for my own image handling; if the width and height don't match, the source rectangle is scaled to match the size of the destination rectangle. However, explicitly setting your members, be it by initialization lists or assignment operators, will ensure that if they do change it to something like setting it to zero will use the original dimensions while a non-zero value will scale to fit, the behavior does not change unexpectedly.