On Tuesday 26 July 2005 03:17 pm, Shandy Brown wrote:
I know that 'libsvg-cairo' is supposed to have an SDL
back-end renderer and 'pycairo' is the python binding for
Cairo. It should certainly be possible in C, but I was
hoping you could just do it in Python, and wondered
if somebody knows for sure (and how to do it).
Am I at least on the right track if I want to render SVG
"cels" to SDL surfaces for animation?
If you find out a conclusive answer please let me (and the list)
know.
The ability to do this would be ideal for one of my projects.
Update on my quest ...
It appears that "pycairo" may be a bit of a red herring. Cairo is
a general-purpose vector graphics engine, and rendering SVG
with the libsvg-cairo package is only one small piece of
functionality.
Pycairo is more like a drawing library for Python.
There is an example in the Cairo CVS of rendering an SVG file
directly to an SDL surface.
http://cvs.cairographics.org/cairo-demo/sdl/
I think the easiest way to make this work is to write a Pyrex module
around that demo. Then I need to know how to wrap the resulting
*SDL* surface in a *PyGame* surface (which is presumeably not
hard, but I'll need to look at the PyGame sources to figure it out ---
probably have to call a PyGame extension module from Pyrex?)
I don't presently know how to do that, but I just downloaded the
PyGame sources to look.