[cairo] Pycairo + PNG Output

[James Mills]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:34:16AM -0700, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
> > So I presume now with this change we can do:
> >
> > import cairo
> > import pygame
> >
> > surface = cairo.ImageSurface(cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, 100, 100)
> > import StringIO
> > buffer = StringIO.StringIO()
> > image = pygame.image.frombuffer(buffer)
> 
> I'm assuming there's some kind of write_to_png(buffer) call right
> before the pygame.image.frombuffer?

Err yes, soryr my bad :)

> Ideally, you really want pycairo to allocate its own buffer for the
> cairo image surface, and let you access it, to pass it to pygame
> directly as a 32-bbp ARGB image.  Otherwise, you waste lots of CPU
> doing png encoding/decoding for no reason, especially if you do this
> often...

Yeeesss!!! HOw do I do this ? :)

cheers
James

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