Tuesday 25 June 2013

Screenshot in SDL/OpenGL

I am using OpenGL and SDL, mostly to learn more of OpenGL. At some time it would be nice to take a screenshot. Pleasant was my surprise that this is not difficult to do. The code shown below is all you need. The _width and _height is your screen size in pixels.

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There is a small caveat. The 'y' axis is swapped when you move from SDL to OpenGL. So you have to flip the SDL image vertically. The function in the code below does exactly that.

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