On 22 Jul., 14:07, Thomas Troeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Maybe http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygameui/ helps you, at least the source code. Greetings, Uwe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
