Re: [Pysdl-devel] TODO

[Mark B. <mb...@0x...>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, "David Clark wrote:
> A few questions for Mark that occur tonight...
> 
> - What is the intended use of the joy_update() function?

Manual pumping of joystick events.

> - Did the bug fixes in the joystick subsection effect the interface?

Some functions that I wrote that didn't find their way into the appropriate
namespaces are now where they belong. This probably has no impact on your
docs.

> - I see some mention of GL-related constants and functions in the
> module, but nothing in the TODO. Is the OpenGL section of SDL still in
> your plans?

The OpenGL section of SDL has been finished since the first release, I think.
SDL doesn't do any wrapping of OpenGL or anything; you need to use it directly
after initializing SDL for OpenGL use.
I have yet, though, to use the OpenGL python module in conjunction with PySDL.

> - A couple of weeks ago you mentioned SDL_ttf support. Are you still
> interested in implementing that? What about David Leimbach's DFont at
> http://phoenix.lhup.edu/~dleimbac/Projects/DFont/ or Karl Bartel's
> http://www.linuxstart.com/~karlb/sfont.html instead? Does anyone
> have a strong preference for one text library or another (I don't)?

I'll look into DFont. Some form of font library will be used. I haven't
determined yet which one.

> - using sound_load() with the wrong frequency just results in
> faster/slower playback, but music_load() segfaults.

This is probably an issue with SDL_mixer. I've only tested it with mp3s, and I
can say that they work. I'll look into its behavior with other music formats.

> - doing:
> 
> sound = sdl.sound_load('foo.wav')
> sound = sdl.sound_load('bar.wav')
> 
> locks up the interpreter hard on the second load (both files exist).

Also, I don't have this problem.

What version of SDL_mixer are you using?