Re: [pygame] ANN: pygame 1.7.0 for Mac OS X 10.3

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bug reporting system is email :)

Send me some minimal example code that demonstrates this problem and  
I'll look at it.

-bob

On Mar 13, 2005, at 16:11, Keith Nemitz wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Got a bug for you. How do I access your bug reporting system?
>
> Briefly, I have art with black skip-color, and I use the alpha  
> blending feature of pygame to fade the art in. Before 1.7 the art  
> faded in beautifully. Now the art fades in without skipping color  
> until the alpha reaches 255. So I get lots of black around the  
> characters as they fade in.
>
> Also, I'm having trouble playing sound effects, but that seems to be  
> an issue with py2app. Music (streamed sound) plays fine, but preloaded  
> sound hangs the system while it plays and is silent. Music and SFX are  
> all ogg. Worked fine with bundleBuilder. Maybe I'm using the wrong  
> recipe with py2app, or I need to explicitly load a framework.
>
> hope you can help,
> Keith Nemitz
> Mousechief Co.
>
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > Although the official sdist tarball isn't cut yet, I've packaged what  
> > should be pygame 1.7.0 for Mac OS X 10.3 users.
> > It is available from pythonmac.org packages at:  
> > http://pythonmac.org/packages/
> >
> > This installer ships with:
> >
> >     pygame:
> >         Installed to /Library/Python2.3/
> >
> >     pygame headers:
> >         Installed to  
> > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/include/ 
> > python2.3/
> >
> >     pygame examples and documentation:
> >         Installed to /Developer/Python/pygame/
> >
> >     SDL with my AltiVec patches, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, SDL_image, smpeg:
> >         Installed to /Library/Frameworks/
> >
> > To use pygame, you will need PyObjC 1.2 or later, and you will  
> > probably want Numeric and PyOpenGL installed.  A PyOpenGL installer  
> > is not available from pythonmac.org packages at this time, but  
> > everything else listed is.
> >
> > The following improvements are especially relevant to Mac OS X:
> >
> > - Calls into nasty private Apple API to grab GUI access if it doesn't  
> > already have it (read: no pythonw required)
> > - Can now read the default font and icon out of any "get_data"  
> > compliant loader (read: py2app 0.1.8 can put pygame entirely in the  
> > site-packages.zip, and it works!).
> > - Includes newer versions of all dependencies (it sure has been a  
> > long time since 1.6.0!)
> > - Most surface operations should be significantly faster on G4 and G5  
> > computers due to my AltiVec patches to SDL
> >
> > As it has been quite a long time since the last release, there are  
> > pages full of bug fixes and feature enhancements.  When the  
> > pygame.org site updates for the 1.7 release, check WhatsNew.
> >
> > Note that I will not be making a Mac OS X 10.2 compatible release for  
> > Python 2.3.  When Python 2.4.1 is out (and probably not until there  
> > is an official distribution of it), I may build a pygame release for  
> > that.
> >
> > -bob