Python embedding question (2).

[Uwe Schmitt]

On 22 Jul., 14:07, Thomas Troeger <thomas.troeger.... at siemens.com>
wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
> > On Jul 17, 9:57 am, Thomas Troeger <thomas.troeger.... at siemens.com>
> > wrote:
> >>> I'd say that PyGame could be a solution.
> >>> Or otherwise you could do your own audio/graphics programming (you don't
> >>> tell us which OS you use, but there exist python modules that allow you
> >>> to do barebones graphics & sound programming on linux...).
> > Pyglet runs on top of OpenGL, which might have performance problems on
> > an embedded device, if OpenGL or Mesa is even supported.  If it's
> > supported, I suspect performance will be adequate for 2D drawing.  It
> > almost certainly is the lightest solution you can find.
>
> > Carl Banks
>
> I've managed to put together a small pyGame program, it runs smoothly
> and seems to be exactly what I wanted. It's fast! Even with 100 moving
> objects it still runs so fast that I can consider using Python/pyGame
> for the whole project.
>
> There are still some questions left which I haven't found out by myself,
> so maybe someone here can answer them:
>
> - I can't see how to create more sophisticated text output, it seems the
> built in font render facilities are limited to simple strings. Is that
> true? I'd need a way to at least render multiline text with paragraphs
> and bidirectionality, like pango does it. Is there a way to integrate
> pango support into pyGame? I'd prefer marked up text display with text
> properties ...
> - Is there some way to reserve screen areas so they are excluded from a
> blit, or do I have to manage stuff like this myself? I am thinking about
> several graphic layers where each layer is painted on top of the next
> layer, for example to draw a gui in front of a background image.
> - There seems to be support for video overlay, i.e. is it possible to
> have an external program paint an image from a camera into a portion of
> the screen while pyGame is running?
>
> Maybe this is the wrong list to ask, so please forgive the question but
> direct me to somewhere better.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas.

Maybe http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygameui/ helps you,
at least the source code.

Greetings, Uwe