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Re: [pygame] surfaces and memory
Thanks Rene, I think that will fix my problem. That limitation is from from SDL, yeah? Any technical reason it's there?
Luke
On 8/20/05, Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A Surface can have a maximum height and width of 16384,16384.
For debuging I mainly use print statements. Also I use an
interpreter, like ipython.
For C level stuff I also use printf, and sometimes gdb and valgrind.
Also linking libraries like SDL statically can help with C level
debugging a lot.
Perhaps try putting the images in a zipfile, and reading them from
there? Don't use compression on the zip though.
It sounds like all the images are using up too much memory. Are they
already at 8/16bit colour?
Cheer.
On 8/20/05, Luke Miller <dodgyville@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have a very complicated animation (100+ frames) I want to load up in
> pygame. When I load each image individually, it loads (takes a while to read
> from disk though) and then runs fine. However, when I compile the frames
> into a wide montage in a single file and try to load it as one surface, I
> get:
> <pygame.error instance at 0x4029896c> Out of memory exceptions.
>
> Two questions:
> Does anyone have an idea of how big a surface can be?
>
> And also, does anyone know the best way to debug pygame?
>
> Thanks,
> Luke
>