Hi Python People! I've recently started learning Python in order to create educational content for the One Laptop Per Child project:
<http://www.laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml> The first application I'm working on is a game of Snakes and Ladders, to help younger children understand the concepts of counting and placing numbers in the right order. You can find a first draft of the game here: <http://olpc-dev.fuelindustries.com/snakes_080104.zip> To play, click on the dice to obtain a number, then click on the board squares in the right order. When you've counted up to the number on the dice, you'll need to click on the dice again to continue. I'm looking for help with a number of issues (I'll treat each of the issues in a separate thread). To start with what I hope will be an easy one: *** I'm importing a graphic named Counter_1.png for the counter. I'd like its background to be transparent, using the PNG's built-in alpha channel. As this is for the OLPC laptop, where every electron is precious, I want to load the minimum number of modules to have the minimum processor overhead. What is the cheapest way (in terms of RAM usage and CPU cycles) to display a PNG image with alpha-transparency? I am aware of the VisionEgg demo at... <http://visionegg.org/svn/trunk/visionegg/demo/alpha_texture.py> ... but I am concerned that this would be overkill for a simple 2D application: VisionEgg requires a mini-series of other modules before it will work. Or should I forgo alpha-transparency and simply use pygame's image.set_colorkey(), which will give me a pixelated edge to the transparent parts of the image? *** Thanks in advance, James _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
