Sdl_surface Trouble For Gui Windows

[Pickle]

My basic idea is to take some loaded bitmaps and put them togther to form a window (basically a picture with a border). I want to put all of these bitmaps into a SDL_surface in memory, then when I need the window I only have to blit the final SDL_surface.

Its not working as i expected. I am using SDL_BlitSurface() to put my bitmaps pieces into a empty SDL_surface. Problem is when I blit the final SDL_surface nothing shows up.

My guess is I need to do something with my inbetween SDL_surface other than just:
CODE
SDL_Surface window_surface;

My guess is maybe because im using HW surfaces? Is there a SDL function I should use to setup this SDL_surface?

 

[PokeParadox]

can you post more code please?

 

[Sphinxter]

SDL_Flip();

 

[Alex.]

Yes you must call SDL_CreateRGBSurface to init the new surface with proper specs.

 

[Pickle]

Yes you must call SDL_CreateRGBSurface to init the new surface with proper specs.

Thanks Alex thats what I was looking for.