(This is the legacy documentation for SDL2, the previous stable version; SDL3 is the current stable version.)

SDL_UpdateWindowSurfaceRects

Copy areas of the window surface to the screen.

Header File

Syntax

int SDL_UpdateWindowSurfaceRects(SDL_Window * window,
                                 const SDL_Rect * rects,
                                 int numrects);

Function Parameters

SDL_Window *	window	the window to update.
const SDL_Rect *	rects	an array of SDL_Rect structures representing areas of the surface to copy, in pixels.
int	numrects	the number of rectangles.

Return Value

(int) Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure; call SDL_GetError() for more information.

Remarks

This is the function you use to reflect changes to portions of the surface on the screen.

This function is equivalent to the SDL 1.2 API SDL_UpdateRects().

Note that this function will update at least the rectangles specified, but this is only intended as an optimization; in practice, this might update more of the screen (or all of the screen!), depending on what method SDL uses to send pixels to the system.

Version

This function is available since SDL 2.0.0.