Proper way to scale an SDL Surface without clipping?

Question

what is the proper way to scale an SDL Surface? I found one explanation online but it required redrawing the Surface pixel by pixel. It seems like there should be some way o

Answer 1

I know this answer is way too late to assist the person who asked it, but I decided to write this to help anyone who stumbles upon this question. In SDL 2.0 You can use the SDL_BlitScaled() function to scale a surface into a targeted SDL_Rect. There's a tutorial by LazyFoo which describes this, or check out this documentation.