SDL_ScaleMode(3type)

💖 SDL_ScaleMode 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because we're talking about SDL_ScaleMode — literally the enum that decides how your pixels get stretched, from the SDL3 DATATYPES crew ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_ScaleMode — the scaling mode. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

first things first, you gotta invite it in:

#include <SDL3/SDL_surface.h>

and here's the whole enum, no crumbs left behind:

typedef enum SDL_ScaleMode
{
    SDL_SCALEMODE_INVALID = -1,
    SDL_SCALEMODE_NEAREST,  /**< nearest pixel sampling */
    SDL_SCALEMODE_LINEAR,   /**< linear filtering */
    SDL_SCALEMODE_PIXELART  /**< nearest pixel sampling with improved scaling for pixel art, available since SDL 3.4.0 */
} SDL_ScaleMode;

let's break down the members, because each one is giving a whole different energy 🦋

• SDL_SCALEMODE_INVALID — set to -1. it's the "this is not a real mode" mode, the placeholder, the empty seat at the lunch table 🫥
• SDL_SCALEMODE_NEAREST — nearest pixel sampling. chunky, crisp, unbothered, exactly as the source pixels intended 👑
• SDL_SCALEMODE_LINEAR — linear filtering. smooth and soft, blurs the edges together like a lil filter on your selfie 🌸
• SDL_SCALEMODE_PIXELART — nearest pixel sampling with improved scaling for pixel art, and she's available since SDL 3.4.0. the glow-up for your 16-bit era faves fr fr 🔥

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💜 AVAILABILITY 💜

this enum has been around since SDL 3.2.0 — she's not new new, but she's thriving ✨

ngl bestie, SDL_SCALEMODE_PIXELART is the newer one of the bunch (SDL 3.4.0, remember?), so if you're building against an older SDL and it's acting like that value doesn't exist… that's why 😭

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and that's the whole page, no notes 💅

this lil datatype lives in the Simple Directmedia Layer house, page for SDL 3.4.18, dated SDL_ScaleMode(3type) — mwah, periodt 🎀