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Hi,

I've recently started playing around with SDL for a hobby project of mine, replacing my old 16 bit software blitting library. And I've come across a problem I'm hoping someone here can help me with.

I have a block of raw pixel data in BGR888 format, and I want to convert it to a ARGB8888 texture. I tried SDL_ConvertPixels but it doesn't work in the way I need it to. I need each pixel to be "expanded" from three byte to four byte. SDL_Convert pixels does it on a row by row basis.

So is there some clever SDL function I'm missing that will do this or willl I have to break out the old assembler?