[pygame] alpha and fonts

[Andrew Straw <andrew.straw@adelaide.edu.au>]

Hi,

I have a question regarding fonts and alpha.  The render() method  
doesn't seem to handle alpha properly (to my way of thinking, anyway).   
Example code is below.

This:

f = pygame.font.Font(None,30)
rendered_surf = f.render("blah blah", 1, (255,255,255,255),(0,0,0,0))
texels_pil =  
Image.fromstring('RGBA',rendered_surf.get_size(),pygame.image.tostring(r 
endered_surf,'RGBA'))

Should produce the same output as this: (I think)

f = pygame.font.Font(None,30)
rendered_surf = f.render("blah blah", 1, (255,255,255),(0,0,0))
texels_pil =  
Image.fromstring('RGB',rendered_surf.get_size(),pygame.image.tostring(re 
ndered_surf,'RGB'))
r,g,b=texels_pil.split()
a=r
texels_pil = Image.merge("RGBA",(r,g,b,a))

Why doesn't this work?

Cheers!
Andrew