[Pysdl-devel] To do?

[David C. <D. C. <si...@te...>]

Here's a little update as to where pySDL stands relative to the
software it depends on:

 Library          Supported             Current
-----------------------------------------------------------
 SDL               1.1.2                 1.1.3
 SDL_image         1.0.8                 1.0.9
 SDL_mixer         1.0.5                 1.0.6
 SDL_ttf           1.0.1                 1.2.1

SDL - I think the big change is re-sizable window support - we need to
implement a SDL_RESIZABLE constant and SDL_VIDEORESIZE events. There
are new bitmask joystick hat constants for the event subsystem, and
support for YUV video overlay and asynchronous blitting.

SDL_image - Mark kindly implemented TIFF file format loading, and it
seems to work great. Version 1.0.9 added TGA format loading, which
will be pretty nice, since it supports RLE encoding for extra file
size reductions.

SDL_mixer - SDL now supports the very exciting Ogg Vorbis compression
format, a free alternative to mp3.

SDL_ttf - Many functions have been added, the most important of which
is alpha blended dithering. Speed and memory usage have also improved.

SMPEG - Will now build on win32 and beOS.

As far as I can tell, the latest versions don't break anything; I'm
currently using the most recent versions of everything ok. My
documentation is currently on the back burner as I write my game and
play Diablo II, but I'll get back to it when 0.0.7 is released :)

-- 
David Clark
si...@te...
Preliminary pySDL Documentation:
http://www3.telus.net/futility/futility/docs/pysdl/index.html