Trying to create an SDL texture, just get blank screen

SDL Development
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Btw, I now realize that you’re attempting to execute SDL-specific functions before SDL is initialized. You need to initialize SDL before doing any SDL-specific operations and before executing any SDL-specific functions.

So my recommendation is that, at the startup of the program, create everything in the following order:

  1. Initialize SDL by exeuting SDL_Init();
  2. Create the SDL window by executing SDL_CreateWindow();
  3. Create the SDL renderer by executing SDL_CreateRenderer();
  4. Create the texture(s) and other data.

Don’t forget to do error checking when creating stuff. SDL_GetError(); will help you a lot.

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