Re: [pygame] Convert() loses alpha

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

On Saturday 02 October 2004 14:13, Dmitry Borisov wrote:
> To: <pygame-users@seul.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [pygame] Convert() loses alpha
>
> > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:15:26 -0700, Dmitry Borisov wrote:
> > > > I was trying these also:
> > > >     image= pygame.image.load( name ).convert( 32, SRCALPHA )
> > > > and
> > > >     image= pygame.image.load( name )
> > > >     s= Surface( size ).convert_alpha()
> > > >     s.blit( image, (0,0) )
> > >
> > > Try this one:
> > >
> > > image = pygame.image.load(name)
> > > image = image.convert_alpha()
> >
> > I tried that also, it is making the whole image transparent. So my
> > background just empty.
> > Dmitry/
>
> I just took a look at directx5 driver in SDL and saw that it does _not_ use
> any HW operations even though it is there.
> Init function just assigns everything to be SWSURFACE and most of graphic
> card cannot use HW ops on it.
> So if you use directx or windib it'll almost always be SW ops and alpha
> blitting is way _too_ slow.
> Too bad. I'll go with DX9 and may be I'll build a Python bindings to it. If
> anyone is aware of such an activity, let me know...

Ummm... and what is wrong with pyopengl? then it would be portable as well.