Elysian Shadows

I'm working on the collision for my RPG. The way I'm going to come at it is to have an array of SDL_Rects, and test each one per loop. In the editor, I'm making you draw with the Middle Scroll Wheel. (clicking). To show where the rectangle is that you drew, I'm making it fill the rectangle.

Does anyone have the code snippet to fill a rectangle? I know the SDL_FillRect(), but it needs a surface, and its really messy.

Can SDL_Rects be filled on the screen? Or are they just fo' data?

coordinates is a SDL_Rect,
destination is a SDL_Surface
r, g, b are ints
SDL_FillRect( destination, &coordinates, SDL_MapRGB( destination->format, r, g, b ) );

I think they can be used on the screen,not totally sure. I think I did it once.

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Oh! *dst shoulda been a flag... Um, how do you use Uint 8? It's like 0xA for black, why can't they just use RGB...? What is the Uint 8 code for Red? {255,0,0} red.

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EDIT: Is there a way to have a Red border, with transparent inside? I kinda need to see whats behind it to make good collision.

SDL_DrawRect( SDL_Surface *destination, SDL_Rect *rect, Uint32 color );


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