Re: [pygame] windows tga loading problem

[Stuart <stuartw@kcbbs.gen.nz>]

On Mon, 05 May 2003 10:41, Pete Shinners wrote:
> > Hello, I've just joined this list, although I've been using pygame for
> > some time now, it is a fantastic library!
> >
> > I have one problem at present,
> >
> > under windows (I use pygame under both windows and linux) and version
> > 1.55 I cannot seem to load .tga images with pygame.image.load('test.tga')
> > - the same image seems to work under linux (last time I checked anyway),
> > and works with 1.53, am I missing something here?
> > even if I load a png image and save is as tga I cannot then load it back
> > in as tga:
>
> stuart, hmm, looks like the binaries i created for SDL_image didn't
> include TGA support this time around (strange). as a quick solution, you
> could download the windows binary for SDL_image and put the
> SDL_image.dll into the installed pygame directory. you may lose support
> for a couple other formats, but you should gain tga.
>
> http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL_image-1.2.3-win32.zip

That works perfectly thank you Pete.

Regards,
Stuart.