Hi all, I'm pretty new to pygame (although I have good experience with python) and this is my first message on the list. Bear with me if what I am about to ask has been already discussed.
While working around my first program, I realised that while each sprite has an update() function, it's drawing happens at group level, by blitting the s.image and s.rect directly, which somehow limits this functionality (for example making impossible to set blit flags). I was wondering if this was a design choice, and in that case, what's the rationale behind it. I realise both that: 1. Calling a sprite function is expensive 2. I can override the group.draw method to call a sprite function Yet it seems to me that having a sprite.update without a sprite.draw is "inconsistent" from an API standpoint. I did not profile the code to see how big is the performance hit because of #1, but #2 has serious limitations as a workaround: for one, the draw() method changes in each an all of the group classes, so if the sprite must use a draw method, one will have to override _all_ of the draw methods of the types of groups used in the program. Your thoughts? /mac
