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screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(1000,1000,32, SDL_HWSURFACE | SDL_FULLSCREEN);
What does the | do in SDL_HWSURFACE | SDL_FULLSCREEN? (I tried googling this but google wont accept special characters..)
The other answers have explained it’s a bitwise OR, but you probably want to know how that works:
The flags are passed as a binary number, like 00001000 or 01000000, and each bit represents an individual flag. So the first bit (0) means HW_SURFACE is off, and the second bit (1) means FULLSCREEN is on. (Note that these are examples, I’m not sure about the actual bits.)
So what the bitwise OR function does is combine those two flags by comparing each bit and saying “Is this bit OR this bit 1?” and if either is 1, it will set the result to 1. This will provide the result 01001000 which can be parsed by SDL to set the appropriate flags.