[Pythoncard-users] Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) and PyGame

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Does anyone on the list have experience with either SDL or PyGame? PyGame
was mentioned very early on in the mailing list, but there wasn't any
follow-up. The reason I'm bringing them up now is the possibility of
utilizing SDL and/or PyGame for areas where wxWindows/wxPython is a bit
lacking, in particular sound and video playback.

It could very well be that SDL/PyGame is much better for drawing bitmap
graphics in a frame as well as opposed to using a wxWindows device context.
Anyway, I started an email conversation with the PyGame author, so I might
go off on a tangent to investigate this further before bringing it up on
wx-dev.

If anyone has additional info or experience to add please speak up. Also, if
someone would like to pursue this rather than me, that would also be great,
since investigations are going to take away from other tasks. It does
involve fun stuff like MPEG, MP3, 3D drawing, etc.

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)
http://www.libsdl.org/
"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to
provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It is used
by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the
award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." Simple
DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, and
FreeBSD.

SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to
several other languages, including Ada, Eiffel, ML, Perl, PHP, Python, and
Ruby."

PyGame
http://pygame.seul.org/
"Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. This library
is written on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create
fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language. The
library is highly portable, with users running on Windows (directx), NT4,
MacOS, OSX, BeOS, FreeBSD, IRIX, and Linux."

ka