Carl Banks wrote:
On Jul 17, 9:57 am, Thomas Troeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'd say that PyGame could be a solution.
Or otherwise you could do your own audio/graphics programming (you don't
tell us which OS you use, but there exist python modules that allow you
to do barebones graphics & sound programming on linux...).
Pyglet runs on top of OpenGL, which might have performance problems on
an embedded device, if OpenGL or Mesa is even supported. If it's
supported, I suspect performance will be adequate for 2D drawing. It
almost certainly is the lightest solution you can find.
Carl Banks
I've managed to put together a small pyGame program, it runs smoothly
and seems to be exactly what I wanted. It's fast! Even with 100 moving
objects it still runs so fast that I can consider using Python/pyGame
for the whole project.
There are still some questions left which I haven't found out by myself,
so maybe someone here can answer them:
- I can't see how to create more sophisticated text output, it seems the
built in font render facilities are limited to simple strings. Is that
true? I'd need a way to at least render multiline text with paragraphs
and bidirectionality, like pango does it. Is there a way to integrate
pango support into pyGame? I'd prefer marked up text display with text
properties ...
- Is there some way to reserve screen areas so they are excluded from a
blit, or do I have to manage stuff like this myself? I am thinking about
several graphic layers where each layer is painted on top of the next
layer, for example to draw a gui in front of a background image.
- There seems to be support for video overlay, i.e. is it possible to
have an external program paint an image from a camera into a portion of
the screen while pyGame is running?
Maybe this is the wrong list to ask, so please forgive the question but
direct me to somewhere better.
Cheers,
Thomas.
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