Feature Request: Load image directly into SDL GPU texture

[jsoulier]

Hey there,

Since SDL_ttf has support for the GPU API, does it make sense to add some convenience functions here for loading an image into a GPU texture?

To start, something like...

extern SDL_DECLSPEC SDL_GPUTexture * SDLCALL IMG_LoadGPUTexture(SDL_GPUDevice *device, const char *path);

Basically just the same API as:

extern SDL_DECLSPEC SDL_Texture * SDLCALL IMG_LoadTexture(SDL_Renderer *renderer, const char *file);

Internally it could just acquire it's own command buffer and copy pass. Maybe could also make a common assumption about texture format.

Thanks

[alterae]

this would be great

relatedly, currently getting an image into a gpu texture requires manually calling SDL_ConvertSurface and requires that you manually choose a pixel format and gpu texture format that are compatible with one another (ie SDL_PIXELFORMAT_RGBA32 and SDL_GPU_TEXTUREFORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM)

this works but it feels more than a little awkward