It's impossible to tell from what you posted whether the error occurs on the
pygame.image.frombuffer() call or the ImageSurface().get_data() call, but
knowing that is very important in determining where the problem lies.
so what do you get if you try to do this?
>>> import cairo
>>> import pygame
>>> s = cairo.ImageSurface (cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 256, 192)
>>> buf = s.get_data()
>>> i = pygame.image.frombuffer (buf, (256, 192), 'RGBA')
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've run into a problem with pygame 1.7.1 when using Python 2.5, but not
> prior versions.
>
> >>> import cairo
> >>> import pygame
> >>> s = cairo.ImageSurface (cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 256, 192)
> >>> i = pygame.image.frombuffer (s.get_data (), (256, 192), 'RGBA')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: char buffer type not available
>
> I also tried this with pygame 1.8, with no luck.
>
> Can anyone say whether this is likely to be a problem with Python, or
> pygame, or my code? :)
>
> --
> Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
