What does the term "Blit" in SDL mean?

Started by parthibbiswas93, Jan 27 2013 09:04 AM

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:04 AM

Hello everyone...

For last couple of days, I've been following LazyFoo's SDL tutorials and then I came across this term "blit". I decided to check out SDL's documentation but I could not understand. I decided to just memorize this particular part from the tutorials. But as I progressed, it became a bit harder for me to understand the tutorials. From then onwards I've been itching to know what is "Blit"?

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:14 AM

First result from google.

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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:33 AM

The simple answer is that it means 'draw'.

SDL_BlitSurface() means SDL_DrawTheSurface().

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Posted 28 January 2013 - 03:59 PM

More specifically, it means copying a block of pixels from a source surface to a destination.

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