On Jan 25, 2008 5:17 PM, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25 Jan, 22:06, "Lorenzo E. Danielsson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What you need then is something like SVGAlib (http;//svgalib.org). Only > > really old people like myself know that it exists. I've never heard of > > any Python bindings for it, but that might be where you come in. I > > haven't looked at SVGAlib for years, and I'm not sure about the state of > > the video drivers. I suggest you look at that first. > > I believe that SVGAlib was superseded by GGI and other projects, and I > recall that SVGAlib was considered to be something of a nightware with > respect to how it handles various resources. Certainly, I haven't been > very impressed by the behaviour of software using it. > > > You could also look at GGI (http://ggi-project.org). GGI has different > > output targets. IIRC, one of them is directfb. To tell you the truth > > I've never really used GGI. There seems to be a python wrapper for GGI, > > although it is fairly old. Maybe you could look at the code for some ideas. > > I've had to build software using GGI, and the biggest problem has been > getting packages for it. That said, it seemed to work fairly > acceptably once built and installed. Meanwhile, some people favour > Allegro [1] for this kind of work, and I've been confronted with newly > developed software which uses Allegro, so it's arguably in a different > maintenance state than something like SVGAlib or GGI. > > > You should also be able to compile SDL to be able to use directfb as a > > target. If your libSDL handles it, then that should apply to wrapper > > libraries as well, including pygame. I've never tried running SDL apps > > this way, but if it works well, that would probably be your 'best' option. > > I'd agree with these sentiments; SDL seems to be the best supported > technology of this kind in the Python universe, and one of the most > widely deployed in general; I've felt quite comfortable building > software against it. It would be very interesting to see whether a > framebuffer-based SDL could support Pygame, and I imagine that the > Pygame mailing list might already have some answers in its archives on > this topic. >
I agree that SDL is probably the best choice but for the sake of completeness, Gtk can (at least in theory - I've never tried it) be built against directfb and run without X. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
