Re: [pygame] Problem loading TGA images from StringIO

[Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Josh Segall wrote:

> I'm trying to have my game use a zipped file instead of loading from a
> data directory.  This should be possible by wrapping zip data in
> StringIO objects.  My image files are in TGA format and when I try to 
> load
> them, I get the following error:
Have you considered using png files instead of a zip file of otherwise 
uncompressed bitmaps?  The compression will be the same or better, and 
the format is sane.  I can also attest to the fact that it is well 
supported by pygame in a typical configuration.

-bob