RE: [pygame] Surfarray question

["Noah Kantrowitz" <noah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why would you store them as arrays? That's pretty non-trivial overhead.

--Noah

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Abhinav Lele
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:48 AM
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pygame] Surfarray question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using surfarray to blit an image.
> When i use array2d i see the image being renderer, but with array3d i
> dont.
> 
> 
> I use the following code to load image :
> 
>             r_temp_surface = pygame.image.load(fpath).convert_alpha()
>             salpha =  r_temp_surface.get_alpha()
>             r_surface = pygame.Surface((o_w,o_h)).convert_alpha()
> 
> pygame.transform.smoothscale(r_temp_surface,(o_w,o_h),r_surface)
>             #if salpha != None:
>             #    r_surface.set_alpha(salpha)
>             r_array = pygame.surfarray.array3d(r_surface)
>             print "New Surface Alpha: " , r_surface.get_alpha()
>             storeObject.lib_set(o_id,"__render_surface",r_surface)
>             storeObject.lib_set(o_id,"__render_array",r_array)
> 
> 
> 
> To render I use :
> 
>         r_myarray = storeObject.lib_get(o_id,"__render_array")
>         r_mysurface = storeObject.lib_get(o_id,"__render_surface")
>         pygame.surfarray.blit_array(r_mysurface, r_myarray)
>         surface.blit  (r_mysurface,(gx,gy))
> 
> 
> 
> Plz help.
> 
> -Abhinav