On 1/20/07, Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1/19/07, Kamilche <kamilche@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I discovered a technique for loading graphics quickly using Pygame,
> about 30x faster than a straight pygame.image.load
.
>
> The gist of it is convert the picture to a string with
>
> s = pygame.image.tostring(pic, 'RGBA')
> w, h = pic.get_size()
>
> and later, when loading, use
> pygame.image.frombuffer(s, [w, h], 'RGBA')
>
> Unfortunately, I can't use it in my current project, because I need to
> access the color palette of 256 color images. I can't use this technique
> to store and load these palettized images, because images come out solid
> black.
>
> Hope this technique comes in useful to someone else tho! (Someone that
> doesn't need 256 color images.)
That doesn't seem to make any sense... you've already loaded the
picture, why convert it to a string just to convert it back to a
picture? It's using up about the same amount of RAM as a string or as
an image object.
You misunderstand I think. It looks to me like he is saying 'convert the image to a string and save that', then when loading just load the string.
Which is going to be faster, of course -- no decompression or headers. It just strikes me if this kind of thing is critical then he's probably loading the images at the wrong point.