Is there a way to save surfaces?

[Bonny Fernandes]

I am working on an android game and I use surfaces to draw stuff on the screen. The problem is that whenever I minimize the game, the surface is lost. I was wondering if there's a way to save surfaces to a variable or some kind of data structure or maybe a file so I can recover the surface when the game is opened again...

 

[RangerX]

Is the function "surface_save" working on Android target? I honestly don't know

 

[renex]

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/buffers/buffer_get_surface.html
http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/buffers/buffer_set_surface.html

 

[kburkhart84]

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/buffers/buffer_get_surface.html
http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/buffers/buffer_set_surface.html

According to the docs those only work on Windows and PS4. I was actually going to suggest those to someone a few weeks ago and it won't work unless the docs just need updating.

 

[renex]

Oh, wait.

Well then he will have to save them to png.

 

[RangerX]

sprite create from surface
save the sprite on file
import the sprite if need be
draw it on surface

Sounds like a pain

 

[renex]

You can save surfaces to png directly.