consoles, for example, log
the embedded user in to tty2:
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty --autologin embedded tty2
Then you can edit /home/embedded/.profile to run your program.
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anywhere.
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, the windows volume mixer test sound still worked
find.
Very strange.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:04:12PM -0300, sarah marques wrote:
Yes, I meant that. Sorry, I translated my code from Portuguese to send
it to the list, and this word 'som' slipped.
Sarah Barreto Marques
2013/6/27, James Paige b
handy in combination with reading raw
stdin, but whether or not it will be useful for your program I don't know.
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 05:05:59PM -0700, winkleink wrote:
Hi,
I'm running pygame in a raspberry pi.
The program I am writing has no graphical interface and I am
That is definitely spam. Many of the wiki pages on pygame.org are still
plagued with it :(
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:04:39PM -0500, Jake b wrote:
I found strange links on the bottom of the cookbook. It just says
http://spam link redacted
--
Jake
that time comes.
Other opinions welcome :)
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:56:32AM +0100, Andrew Barlow wrote:
Yeah, it'd be great to know the differences between PyGame 1 and 2,
advantages, disadvantages, etc.
My big question (besides all the others I've posted
)
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:08:08PM +0100, Mathieu Dubois wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on a program (written by someone else) to use PyGame to
display some images for use in a psychological experiment. I am new to
PyGame.
For the experiment we need to display circles of a given physical
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:51:57AM -0800, James Paige wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:08:08PM +0100, Mathieu Dubois wrote:
Hello,
I'm working on a program (written by someone else) to use PyGame to
display some images for use in a psychological experiment. I am new to
PyGame
I thought that Nelly's Rooftop Garden felt rather polished and
professional. I think that was a pyweek game.
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 02:35:24PM -0800, Al Sweigart wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm compiling a list of professional-quality games made using
Pygame. These don't
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:04:16AM -0500, Julian wrote:
On 02/15/2013 02:18 AM, Mt.Rose$TheFerns wrote:
Yeah I am quite sure.
I have 2.7.3 on my comp and it gives me no error at all.
I don't know anything about Mac OS X, but I don't think you can use the
same Pygame installation for two
are different than the version
number of python that pygame was compiled for.
So what you used on your office windows computer was pygame 1.9.1
compiled for python 3.3.0
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 08:19:48AM -0700, James Paige wrote:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:17:02AM -0400, Ryan Hope wrote:
Where does the source for the pygame 1.9.2 builds come from? All I can
find is 1.9.1 source which is over 3 years old.
Wow. I was going to confidently point out where
/ where virtually everything is designed
to allow re-use.
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But for a beginner, just learning python, it really doesn't matter
very much which version you use.
The really important part is that your python version has to match your
pygame version.
I am pretty sure that the vast majority of tutorials will work exactly
the same in 2.7 and 3.x
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I am pretty sure you need to pump the event queue.
http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/event.html#pygame.event.pump
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:41:13PM -0700, Franky wrote:
Hello!
I have been playing around with joysticks in pygame a little bit.
This is my most recent testing
I've given up on using SysFont because the results are
too unpredictable cross-platform. I always bundle my
own fonts with my games and use Font to load them
explicitly.
YES! This, this, a thousand times THIS!
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Maybe my memory is fuzzy from so much time spent on Linux, but I thought
Windows only locked files that you have open for writing. Shouldn't it
not be locking a file that is only open for read?
Is it possible that mixer.music.load() is opening the music file in the
wrong mode?
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Red-Green-Blue is for additive color (light)
Red-Blue-Yellow and Cyan-Magenta-Yellow are for subtractive color
(paint, ink, etc)
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 06:15:15PM +0100, Nick Arnoeyts wrote:
You're probably talking about something else, but isn't it supposed to be
Red-Green-Blue and
He did already :)
ORIGLIBDIRS=/lib:/lib/`uname -i`-linux-gnu:/lib64:/X11R6/lib \
python setup.py build
the first line puts the lib location for your system into the
ORIGLIBDIRS environment variable. Then when you run setup.py in the
second line, setup.py knows to automatically search the
:37AM -0800, AntCox wrote:
Thank you James. When I work out where the correct libs have been
installed should those locations be appended to the string assigned to
ORIGLIBDIRS or just replace what Chris has in there?
On Feb 14, 6:01 pm, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote:
He did already
release of pygame is ready and SDL 2.0 is not out yet,
we should be calling it pygame 1.10.0
(but hopefully SDL 2.0 WILL be out by then)
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I am not aware of any good reason why pygame would require python2.6
I have been using pygame with python 2.7 for a long time now, and I have
not encountered any problems.
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:10:45PM +0100, Florian Krause wrote:
Good, because I would really like
, so I have to be more careful
about performance.
If you want an example of a pygame game that was ported to android using
PGS4A, search the android market for Stegavorto
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of libmad as an alternative to smpeg?
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are special somehow.
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I have suggested this before, but it bears repeating. Anonymous users,
and new users should just not be allowed to make any edit that contains
a url.
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On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 11:56:01AM -0430, Ciro Duran wrote:
The wiki is full of them. I tried in the past to edit those
,
but there is a complete copy of it embedded into your .apk
file. Python does indeed run on the android phone.
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is NOT the Java
version, it is mostly re-written in C, so I guess this is the exception
that proves the rule :)
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on your phone.
I tried to do profiling on my Android device. The cProfile module didn't
work, but the profile module did, unfortunately it is so much slower
than the cProfile module, so it was difficult to test with on the
Android device.
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 04:28:45PM -0200
will only
confuse newcomers.
Maybe just a link on the downloads page that leads to a separate page
titled How to decided which python+pygame version is best for me
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:26:56AM -0500, Jake b wrote:
For the updated website, what versions do you think we
, the best version of pygame is the one that will
work on my computer ;)
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have no choice
but to use colorkey transparency.
http://pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#Surface.set_colorkey
But what you probably really want is to ise PNG format instead of BMP.
PNG actually supports transparency.
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:07:30PM +0200, René Dudfield wrote:
Hello again,
http://hg.pygame.org/
Is the domain name now for source, issues etc.
@James
The urls should map from 3 through to 73, like this:
http://pygame.motherhamster.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3
If, after the conversion is complete, you can give me a file that maps
bugzilla bug numbers to bitbucket bug numbers, I can make the old bug
urls redirect to the new bitbicket urls.
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 06:59:41PM +0200, René Dudfield wrote:
Hi,
I'm making
Are you looking for something for yourself, or something for your
students?
I was pretty impressed with http://inventwithpython.com/
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:44:32PM +0200, Hokan LUNDBERG wrote:
Hello!
I have used Pygame in my classes for a year now, and it is working
I never mess with the color schemes on them, but I have been very happy
with both Scite and Geany.
Neither of them has any particularly fancy features. They are simple.
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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:43:04PM -0300, Sean Wolfe wrote:
Hey guys + gals, I am wondering if anybody can
is launched that it will always hit the target no matter how
it moves.
That being said, I don't have any idea if Nathan Biagini wants to make
his own tower defense game work that way or not :)
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Lee Buckingham wrote:
Unless the bullet can
Not built into pygame, but there is a good one on the pygame wiki:
http://pygame.org/wiki/2DVectorClass
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:33:16PM +0200, Nathan BIAGINI wrote:
There is a pygame object to create a 2d vector?
2011/7/20 Joe Ranalli jrana...@gmail.com
Yes a vector is
the bugs already filed in it into a different bug tracker?
(maybe even a python-based one?)
I am not going to suddenly stop hosting it or anything like that, I just
want to find out if there is anybody out there who is interested in
taking it over and/or making it better.
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of NOT automatically forcing forcing fullscreen,
is that it makes it very easy for you as the developer to test various
resolutions that are smaller than your desktop size.
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want them both to be 60 fps, it can still be a big
advantage to separate them, because a slowdown in one doesn't always
have to affect the other.
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window before you can read joystick events. You said this was a server,
so if it is not running a graphical environment, initializing that
window could possibly be a problem.
Otherwise, sounds like fun :)
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:55:53PM +0200, slawko.skrzy...@poczta.fm wrote
to look at it and wondered why it
seemed to be a broken PNG)
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:49:47PM +0200, slawko.skrzy...@poczta.fm wrote:
No, I do not want to disassemble a Joystick.
I simply want to add a relay that would be connected to existing relay in UPS
that switches
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote:
I was assuming that you were talking about a USB joystick or gamepad.
Are you talking about the old midi-port style joysticks? the ones where
the port is usually on the sound card?
I have no idea if pygame supports
Are you sure your UPS device is actually being read as a Joystick?
Exactly what kind of UPS do you have, and how is it connected to the
computer?
There are probably better tools for doing what you want to do than
pygame.
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:42:18AM +0200, slawko.skrzy
Use python's cProfile module to quickly pinpoint the slowest parts of
your code.
http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 04:02:35PM -0700, Julian Marchant wrote:
I have actually mentioned this project of mine on this list before
reference.
Lenard
Just a thought-- is there any possible interface where volunteers could
have a wiki-like interface for contributing updates directly to the reST
format docs?
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32-bit
python+pygame+py2exe and 64-bit python+pygame+py2exe installed
simultaneously on the same system? That seems ideal for being able to
distribute executables for both architechtures
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the appropriate time to maintain some max
framerate?
That only caps a max framerate. What Gumm is talking about is when your
framerate and your game simulation rate can be adjusted independantly
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physical simulation.
I seem to remember that one of the Quake games (or was it all of them?)
did this /wrong/. The distance your character could jump was affected by
your frame rate, making certain hard jumps impossible at certain frame
rates.
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step = distance / time
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:43:30AM +0800, Mark Reed wrote:
I want to calculate a straight path of points between two points and
each frame do:
sprite.x, sprite.y = sprite.path[step]
step++
And have the sprite move along that line. I've lost all basic math
skills,
want to get fancy.
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I suggest auto-rejecting any post that contains a url unless the post is
from a whitelist of known non-spammer users.
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On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:32:19PM -0700, scribbler95 wrote:
Hi, I'm new to this mailing list though I've been using pygame for
about 2 years.
I have
of each python version as it applies to
pygame.
... I just tried to create a wiki page for that purpose, but I can't
figure out how to create new pages, only edit existing ones :(
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on windows, so we
can actually say which is more popular, rather than speculating. (I'll
start a separate thread for that)
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:22:18PM +0100, René Dudfield wrote:
you just go to the url you want to create, then edit it.
cu.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5
installed)
Reason (optional): Until recently I thought python 2.5 + was the only
version to work with pygame and py2exe. Recently switched to 2.6 as my
default, but won't removed 2.5 yet until I have tested py2exe on all my
projects.
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I have read that book. It starts with Python 3 but when you get to the
chapters that use pygame it instructs you to switch to python 2.6.
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:46:49PM -0400, Khono Hackland wrote:
It is indeed for python 3.1. The book tells the user, on page 5
grep is a unix command for searching files. All us cool Linux kids know
it :)
But the Windows equivalent would just be to search in the pygame
examples folder for any files that contain the word SLK_
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:24:56PM +0100, sne...@msn.com wrote:
grep -r for
IDLE != python
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:48:27PM -, sne...@msn.com wrote:
I do like 3.1 for learning, if something goes wrong in 2.5.4 it cuts out
and all your work is lost, 3.1, if something doesn't add up you can close
the program but it doesn't close your .py files so you can save
is just an ordinary Python
framework install. Don't the regular Mac install packages on pygame.org
work with that?
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results :)
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:20:33PM -0800, Yanom Mobis wrote:
pygame does directx? that's new. But i suggest you use openGL so your game
is cross-platform.
SDL has a directx backend, but it only gets used by default under
certain
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:21:16PM +, Kris Schnee wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:36:10 +0100, inigo delgado inigo.delg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all:
And sorry but my not to good english
I'm pretty new in pygame, and in my freetime i'm doing a shooter based en
star wars -sh!!!
(*checks again, yep*)
There is a wcurses work-alike module that you can find, although IIRC it
has some minor differences that you will have to keep in mind if you
want your game to work cross-platform.
Gosh I love/hate Dwarf Fortress :)
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no problem with any of
the non-SDL apps I have tested on Linux.
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:12:14AM -0600, Jake b wrote:
Have you tried changing .key.set_repeat(something_small) ?
I tried that, but it made no difference.
And how are you polling for the events?
Here is my test code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:04:05PM +, René Dudfield wrote:
Hi,
I think this has to do with SDL and xevents. It's possible SDL can lose
events if they come in too fast. Since it tries to prevent flooding of
the event queue. Well it does for mouse events anyway.
I
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:26:18AM -0800, Brian Fisher wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com
wrote:
...Although that still doesn't explain why it has no problem with any of
the non-SDL apps I have tested on Linux.
pyglet is non-SDL
with Pygame-Ctypes. But
I think Alex is no longer maintaining that module in preference to his
Pyglet module.
I did a quick test with Pyglet, and it suffers from the same problem. I
take that to mean that using sdl event callbacks does not work around
this problem.
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:39:00PM -0800, Brian Fisher wrote:
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:51 PM, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com
wrote:
I did a quick test with Pyglet, and it suffers from the same problem. I
take that to mean that using sdl event callbacks does not work
)
Here is how I would write the distance check:
def is_in_range(enemy, tower):
return (enemy.x-tower.x)**2 + (enemy.y-tower.y)**2 = tower.range**2
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:24:50PM -0500, Michael George wrote:
If you find this is too slow, you'll get much better performance
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:23:42PM +, Kris Schnee wrote:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:21:58 -0800, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com
wrote:
A quick test with the timeit module suggest that the ** operator is not
slower.
Here is how I would write the distance check:
def is_in_range
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 10:31:24AM -0800, Ian Mallett wrote:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:21 AM, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com
wrote:
x**0.5 is the same as math.sqrt(x)
x**0.5 is faster than math.sqrt()
Ian
Interesting! You are absolutely right about that.
x**0.5
(background, (0,0))
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slowly.
Also, it looked to me as if all the towers had unlimited range. I think
limited range is a pretty important gameplay element for a tower defense
game.
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:27:50PM -0400, Kris Schnee wrote:
This is more of a general Python question.
[clip..]
Seems cumbersome, doesn't it? I'm basically trying to give my new class
access to the neat functions while putting them into a separate module,
so that the main module isn't
of...
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Eric Pavey wrote:
Been searching around, and haven't come up with anything: Anyone know how
to capture tablet pressure in Pygame? Pygame recognizes my tablet (Wacom
Bamboo) just fine as a mouse, buttonclicks etc, but no pressure based on
reasons why
RGB888 might be less that mathematically perfect for human color vision.
I would be interested to hear from someone who IS an expert. Do we have
any Opticians on-list? :)
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to behave
like a population of Orange cones, so her vision is effectively
Red-Orange-Green-Blue and she can see orange as if it was a primary
color, instead of as a secondary color like most of the rest of us do.
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to
the flash-photos because of the color-shift.
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or not a future version of SDL will support
it. http://www.libsdl.org/mailing-list.php
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don't know whether working in the C:\python26 directory could be
interfering with the operation of py2exe, but it is not impossible.
I have done all of my py2exe packaging using python 2.5
If I get a chance to upgrade to 2.6 I'll let you know if your simple
text case works for me.
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Have you asked on the SDL mailing list yet? Since this does indeed seem
to be an SDL problem, they are likely to be interested in the problem
too.
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org
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On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:52:38PM -0400, pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca wrote
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:10:30AM -0700, Gene Buckle wrote:
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Brian Fisher wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Gene Buckle ge...@deltasoft.com wrote:
The main issue is that the avionics computer will have more than a couple
of these USB video adapters. Is it
pygame will
migrate to it (and correct me if I am wrong, but I think somebody is
already working on this, right?)
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:14:52AM -0400, pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca wrote:
James Paige wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:58:27AM -0400, pierrelafran...@sympatico.ca
wrote:
René Dudfield wrote:
yeah, looks like somewhere the keyboard mappings aren't working.
Likely in linux, C or SDL
Has anybody tried to build a 64-bit pygame? (either Windows or Linux?) I
assume that would mean building 64-bit versions of all the dependancy
libraries too.
I would give it a shot myself, but I don't actually have any 64 bit
machines :)
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:26:56AM -0700,
compiler is itself a 4.x version. But that is as far as I got. I too
don't have a 64bit machine.
Lenard
James Paige wrote:
Has anybody tried to build a 64-bit pygame? (either Windows or Linux?)
I assume that would mean building 64-bit versions of all
for the problem you describe here:
http://pygame.org/wiki/Pygame2exe
I don't know how current that page is.
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 05:58:48PM -0700, Yanom Mobis wrote:
so... blit them all to the screen and change their x and y values as you
scroll?
If you do that, you have to update the x/y of every single sprite or
tile for every movement.
What I like to do is to make all my sprite
by the presence of
more than one website (any user confusion is due to the messyness of
the software, not the website ;)
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library to
do this.
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Is your scrolling map based on tiles?
if so, this problem gets easier...
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:30:25AM -0700, Yanom Mobis wrote:
well i need it to work with a BIG surface at 30 fps. and i need
something that would work with Rabbyt
not need
the time.delay if you were using this in a game, since you would be
playing your sounds inside the game's loop.
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both are using win32)
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but Geany has a built-in
diff plugin called Version Diff which can be enabled from
Tools-Plugin Manager
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On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:23:45PM -0700, Nevon wrote:
I'm currently part of a group developing a FOSS point-and-click
adventure game using Python and Pygame. The game engine is actually a
fork of the engine used in the game Colonel Wiljafjord and the
Tarbukas Tyranny, and entry in Pyweek #3.
saving those things?
And what data format would I choose to avoid players simply going in
and editing the save game in plain text? Have there been any articles
or tutorials written on this?
On May 22, 11:50 pm, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote:
There are a lot of ways to do
examples of how this is done?
On May 23, 12:04 am, James Paige b...@hamsterrepublic.com wrote:
Well, I assume this is an open source game, so protecting the save state
from editing is not of highly critical importance, right?
But you do want to inconvenience casual cheaters.
I
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