On Nov 9, 2007 10:03 AM, Jason Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi.
> I want to render an array or a list.
> Should I use surfarray or numeric.
> Also should I draw to a surface and blit that or should I draw
> straight to the display surface(screen)?
>
Draw to a surface.  Then draw the surface.  Blitting to the screen a large
array each frame will be time-consuming.  Do it once.

> Can python do pointers?
>
It can with OpenGL.  I really don't know about pointers in other
applications.

> I saw something about python buffer objects, would this be a fast
> alternative to numarray/lists?

Again, I only know about OpenGL.  There, one can render immense lists using
vertex buffers, but you're probably talking about Pygame...
Ian

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