Re: [pygame] C access to SDL surfaces

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

if you think they'll be useful for other people you could maybe
contribute them as a module for pygame?  Or part of an existing
module.

Otherwise... Gregs suggestion should work fine.

Cheers,

On 10/17/07, Dan Krol <orblivion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Dan. I'm currently developing a 2d engine, and I was
> wondering if I could get some help from this list. I was going to use
> Python only for some parts of it, but for prototyping I started making
> the whole thing in Python, and thus Pygame. Now I'm thinking I might
> just want to make most of the final version in Python, and just
> optimize things in C (if it's fast enough, why not?), including
> continuing to use Pygame.
>
> Part of the C optimization would be generation of visual effects. I
> looked for this online and on the Pygame site but was unable to find
> anything about it. I was wondering if someone could tell me if there
> was any way to get C access to SDL surfaces. I know that there's this
> Surfarray thing, but I'd rather generate my effects the old fashioned
> way.
>
> Is there a relatively straightforward way to do this? My intention is
> to make a .h file in C that generates the effect, and make it into a
> python file using Pyrex.
>
> Thank you in advance, and thank you for offering this mailing list,
>
> Dan
>