SDL_SavePNG_IO(3)

💾 SDL_SavePNG_IO(3) 💾

okay bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the manual, and today's main character is SDL_SavePNG_IO 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_SavePNG_IO — save a surface to a seekable SDL data stream in PNG format 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_surface.h>

bool SDL_SavePNG_IO(SDL_Surface *surface, SDL_IOStream *dst, bool closeio);

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✨ FUNCTION PARAMETERS ✨

• surface — the SDL_Surface structure holding the image you wanna save 🖼️
• dst — a data stream to save to 🌊
• closeio — if true, it calls SDL_CloseIO() on dst before returning, even in the case of an error 😭 like it's closing that door no matter what happens next, fr fr

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

Returns true on success or false on failure 🫠 and if it's giving failure, call SDL_GetError() for more information 👑

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✨ THREAD SAFETY ✨

This function can be called on different threads with different surfaces 🧚✨ so yes, you can absolutely parallelize this, just keep the surfaces separate, iykyk 💜

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✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

This function is available since SDL 3.4.0 🎀

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• SDL_LoadPNG_IO(3)
• SDL_SavePNG(3)

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bestie reminder: dst has to be seekable, that's not a suggestion, that's the vibe check 🌸

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and that's the whole page, no cap 💖 this one came to you from Simple Directmedia Layer, version SDL 3.4.18 🦋 mwah, go save some PNGs, you ate 💅✨