> Of course when I have began to code Soya3D I was thinking of using PyGame and >PyOpenGL. Here is why I haven't do that: > - for PyOpenGL I had difficulties to install it > - about using SDL 2D capacities : making a SDL surface with both flag for OpenGL and >SDL blit is a cause of problem on my computer > - there is 1 theoric problem (in fact I don't know if it's a problem): the GL >context is provided for 1 thread so the thread that initialize the GL context must >also be the one that calls all OpenGL functions. In fact I don't know if when Python >is running there is only 1 thread or more. I just don't know how Python manages its >modules
Python does not use threads on its own. One would have to explicitly create threads for this ever to be a problem. If you don't use threads, there is no problem. > In fact I am actually changing the part of code that uses SDL. I am looking for a >function to show/hide the 3D window but it seems SDL don't have one. I am currently >making a version using GLX and X11 instead of SDL (of course there are compilation >directive to use GLX or SDL) I think the function you're looking for is pygame.display.iconify(), unless what you're looking to do is to stop showing 3D while continuing to be able to draw with 2D primitives. -- Sean Lynch http://sean.lynch.tv/
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