Cool! Thats great. Can't wait to see the results. Be sure to do an update() based on the rect given. On Apr 5, 2012 4:04 PM, "agraham" <agra...@g-b.net> wrote:
> On 04/05/2012 06:02 PM, Tobias Leich wrote: > >> Hi, do you know the pixel format of the data you have? >> >> Do you get scanlines that you wanna pass to an SDL::Surface? Or do you >> get just the whole image? >> >> May I invite you to irc? Would be much easier than mails... #sdl at >> irc.perl.org. >> >> Cheers, FROGGS >> >> > Hi FROGGS, > > I was on IRC and got a lot of help, thank you. > > The data is RAW BGR/RGB or RGBA data from the network i.e. VNC rectangle > packets. > > The problem I had was it was not obvious how to put this "raw" data into a > surface so that it could be blitted. > > The solution (thanks to Scott Walters) was to get the get_pixels_ptr and > fill the area of the surface directly as follows: > > $pixels_ptr=$surface->get_**pixels_ptr(); > substr $$pixels_ptr, 0, length($data), $data; > > # $data=raw RGB data. > > I hope this information helps others. > > Albert > > > > >
