SDL_ttf & OpenGL - text color issue

[illizit]

i have a problem trying to get white text to an opengl texture.

no matter what i try the best i can get is either yellow, cyan or purple/pink text depending on the combination of formats ive try, just always seems to be missing a mask.

make texture

ZGLTexture ConvertTTFSurfaceToGLTexture(SDL_Surface *source){
		ZGLTexture ztex;

		ztex.size.w = GetPowerOfTwo(source->w);
		ztex.size.h = GetPowerOfTwo(source->h);

		uint32 Rmask, Gmask, Bmask, Amask;
		#if SDL_BYTEORDER == SDL_BIG_ENDIAN
			Rmask = 0xff000000;
			Gmask = 0x00ff0000;
			Bmask = 0x0000ff00;
			Amask = 0x000000ff;
		#else
			Rmask = 0x000000ff;
			Gmask = 0x0000ff00;
			Bmask = 0x00ff0000;
			Amask = 0xff000000;
		#endif

                // did have format based on endianess since how some tutorials i been 
                //reading had it but sperated it to test since didnt display proper
		GLenum tex_format;
		//tex_format = GL_RGBA;
		//tex_format = GL_BGRA;
		tex_format = GL_ABGR_EXT;

		SDL_Surface *temp_surf = NULL;
                // have tried different masks combos with different tex_format but none is right
		temp_surf = SDL_CreateRGBSurface(0, ztex.size.w, ztex.size.h, 32,
				Rmask, Gmask, Bmask, Amask);

	    SDL_BlitSurface(source, 0, temp_surf, 0);
	    SDL_FreeSurface(source);

	    glGenTextures( 1, &ztex.texture );

	    glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, ztex.texture );

	    glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR );
	    glTexParameterf( GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR );

	    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, 4, temp_surf->w, temp_surf->h, 0,
	    		tex_format, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, temp_surf->pixels );

	    SDL_FreeSurface(temp_surf);

	    return ztex;
	}

rendering for now... planned to refine it if i can get it to work right

void Render(){
		if (font == NULL)
			return;

		if (text != last_text){
			SDL_Surface *text_surf = NULL;

			SDL_Color col;
			col.r = 255;
			col.g = 255;
			col.b = 255;

			text_surf = TTF_RenderText_Blended(font, text.c_str(), col);

			glDeleteTextures(1, &ztexture.texture);
			ztexture = ZImageLoader::loader.TextSurfaceToTexture(text_surf);

			last_text = text;
		}

                // draws textured quad which works perfect for pngs
		ZRender::render.Image(ZRect(pos.x, pos.y, ztexture.size.w, ztexture.size.h), 
                               ZColor(255, 255, 255, 255), ztexture.texture, false, 0, 1.0, 1.0, false, true, 1);
	}

how i render images normally and works fine... have tried disabling depth testing but text still messed up

	void Image(const ZRect &rect,
                   const ZColor &color,
                   const GLuint &texture,
                   bool center_origin,
                    float rotate_angle,
                    float scale_x,
                    float scale_y,
                    bool horizontal_flip,
                    bool vertical_flip,
                    const uint8 &z_index) {
		glLoadIdentity();
		if (center_origin)
			glTranslatef(
                           (GLfloat)rect.pos.x+((GLfloat)rect.size.w/2.0f),
                           (GLfloat)rect.pos.y+((GLfloat)rect.size.h/2.0f),
                           0.0f);
		else
			glTranslatef((GLfloat)rect.pos.x, (GLfloat)rect.pos.y, 0.0f);

		if (horizontal_flip && vertical_flip)
			glScalef(-scale_x, -scale_y, 1.0f);
		else if (horizontal_flip && !vertical_flip)
			glScalef(-scale_x, scale_y, 1.0f);
		else if (!horizontal_flip && vertical_flip)
			glScalef(scale_x, -scale_y, 1.0f);
		else
			glScalef(scale_x, scale_y, 1.0f);

		glRotatef(rotate_angle, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f);
		glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);

		GLfloat depth;
		if (z_index > 10)
			depth = 1.0f;
		else
			depth = (GLfloat)z_index/10;

		GLfloat x, y, w, h;
		if (center_origin){
			x = ((GLfloat)rect.size.w/2.0f)*(-1);
			y = ((GLfloat)rect.size.h/2.0f)*(-1);
		}
		else {
			x = 0;
			y = 0;
		}
		w = rect.size.w;
		h = rect.size.h;

		glColor4f((GLfloat)color.r/255.0f,
                           (GLfloat)color.g/255.0f,
                           (GLfloat)color.b/255.0f,
                           (GLfloat)color.a/255.0f);
		glBegin(GL_QUADS);
			glTexCoord2i(0, 0);
			glVertex3f(x, y, depth);

			glTexCoord2i(1, 0);
			glVertex3f(x+w, y, depth);

			glTexCoord2i(1, 1);
			glVertex3f(x+w, y+h, depth);

			glTexCoord2i(0, 1);
			glVertex3f(x, y+h, depth);
		glEnd();
	}

didnt have this problem while building and learning on a more modern graphics adapter so may be thinking its a problem with old hardware
just curious what/if im doing wrong and any possible way to solve it

TTF_RenderText_Solid works perfect not sure how im messing up masks or the format if thats the issue

ok so its not hardware issue since i tested on a decent graphics card...
would appreciate if anyone had any idea at all why color of text surface would be off or missing the rmask in the above code...

[illizit]

solved by adding

SDL_SetAlpha(source, 0, 0);

to the source surface before blitting it on to the new properly formatted surface