What is an SDL renderer?

Question

I\'m starting with SDL2 and having some trouble trying to understand what an SDL_Renderer is.

What is it? What does it do? What\'s the difference between SDL_Rendere

Answer 1

Think of SDL_Window as physical pixels, and SDL_Renderer and a place to store settings/context.

So you create a bunch of resources, and hang them off of the renderer; and then when its ready, you tell renderer to put it all together and send the results to the window.