Re: [pygame] PyGame and SVG

[Jussi Toivola <jtoivola@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool, I have been looking for pygame SVG library for some time.

2009/5/4 Daniel Jo <ostsol@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I was thinking about UIs today and recalled a post by Brad Wardel about the
> UI in Galactic Civilizations. He mentioned how it would look pretty much the
> same regardless of the resolution one runs the game at, due to the use of
> SVG. Presumably, the UI is designed as vector drawings and at runtime
> rendered to a texture whose size depends upon the current screen resolution.
>
> I thought that this would be a great idea for PyGame, but then I found that
> the only implementation of SVG that exists for PyGame actually uses Cairo.
> Personally, I think that using Cairo within PyGame is, at best, suboptimum.
> What you end up with is a whole lot of redundant library that is doing
> exactly nothing. It would be much better to have a implementation with
> relatively atomic dependencies.
>
> Fortunately, after a bit of googling I discovered SDL_svg. It appears to
> require only libxml-2.0 and libSDL. Perfect. It also has a very small API.
> Perfect. After a bit more research I managed to create my own Python
> bindings using Pyrex. Take a look:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/pygame-svg/
>
> -Daniel
>
>



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