Hi,
have you tried pygame 1.9.1+ ?
You might need to compile it from source...
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu
cu,
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:45 PM, James Mazer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just setup a new 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 machine and ran into a nasty
> problem with per pixel alpha. The minimal code fragment below works
> correctly under 32-bit 9.04 (and lower) machines, but fails completely
> under 9.10:
>
> import pygame
> pygame.init()
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1024, 768), 0)
> alpha = pygame.surfarray.pixels_alpha(\
> pygame.Surface((1, 1), flags=0, depth=32).convert_alpha())
> alpha[:] = 128
> print alpha
>
> Ubuntu 9.04 (pygame 1.8.1release + python 2.6.2)
> [ [255] ]
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 (pygame 1.8.1release + python 2.6.4)
> [ [128] ]
>
> Is this a bug? Or is the code I've been using for years to get per
> pixel alpha values just plain wrong?? What's the OFFICIAL way to
> instantiate a sprite with per pixel alpha?
>
> Thanks,
> /jamie
>
> --
> James Mazer
> Department of Neurobiology
> Yale School of Medicine
> phone: 203-737-5853
> fax: 203-785-5263
>
