Re: [pygame] PyGame and SVG

[Peter Gebauer <peter.gebauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I'm not sure, but maybe something like OpenVG would be useful?
http://www.khronos.org/openvg/

Once you have a OpenVG implementation for SDL/PyGame you have a complete
and free API to do vector graphics for games, UI's and what not with
(potentially) hardware acceleration specifically for vector graphics.

Just FYI. :)

/Peter

On 2009-05-05 (Tue) 18:47, Daniel Jo wrote:
> I don't have very much time during the week, but I'll try to get it working
> in Windows (XP) this weekend.  As for OS X, I don't own a system running OS
> X, so unfortunately there's little that I can do there. . .
> -Daniel
> 
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Bo Jangeborg <bo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Do you know if this will be made available for Windows and OS X too ?
> >
> > Bo)
> >
> > Daniel Jo skrev:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> No virus found in this incoming message.
> >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database:
> >> 270.12.15/2093 - Release Date: 05/02/09 14:23:00
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >