Elysian Shadows

SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha(surface) is an SDL function that sets your screens format to the same bits per pixel as your main screen, and also enables an alpha channel for transparency. The fact that when you comment it out there is still a black screen is very odd ... This time (still just guessing here...

if you comment out when you first blit the menu screen does it stop the problem? (just troubleshooting here)

I'm not quite sure :/
One nitpick though, how come you aren't using ?
It probably won't have anything to do with it , but you've been very error safe with the rest of your code

is background a surface that you are drawing to, or a surface that you have loaded a single image into?

the only surface I had was the screen, I was under the impression that SDL_Quit freed the screen only. If not then oops :/

Thanks for the replies I'll keep in mind to name everything appropriately

Hey, I'm fairly new and I have just created my first SDL 'experiment' because I'm fairly new, and you guys are awesome, I wanted to see if you guys like it, and if the code is good or bad :) http://rapidshare.com/files/444341187/rain_arrow.zip I'm proud of it, but I have no idea if what I'm doing is...

I use c++ but the theory is the same for everything

I know this thread is kindof old and you have probably fixed it by now, but as in my eyes it came to no clear conclusion, I would like to say that once had this problem as my tiles were smaller than my player(the player itself wasn't tile-based so there weren't exact collision detection and he would...

Hey, I'm sk1v3r(, or tom, whichever has less numbers :P)
I'm fifteen and have been coding for over a year, enjoying it greatly.
Currently making a side-scroller with c++ and SDL, coming along good
been watching AiGD for AGES...
so hi