[OLPC-Games] Activity API

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> Le mardi 17 avril 2007 à 08:09 +0200, stas zytkiewicz a écrit :
>> On 4/17/07, Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi, I have some concern about pygame on the olpc. In fact, until know, I
>>> though activities should use GTK and the hippo canvas.
>>>
>>> I understand pygame is more efficient to build games but it has also
>>> some drawbacks:
>> [..]
>>> - Pygame doesn't use pango, last time I checked there was not support
>>> for shaping in arabic for example (letter shape depends on the previous
>>> one).
>> Pango uses "fribidi" to do the RTL and shaping, there are python bindings for
>> "fribidi" called "pyfribidi" which, as you know, is used by childsplay
>> to provide
>> RTL and shaping.
>> http://pyfribidi.sourceforge.net/
>>
> I checked on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) using python-pyfribidi 0.6-2 and
> childsplay 0.81.8. I am not an expert but I don't see character shaping.
> In arabic, letters should be joined smoothly, I don't see it happening.
> It's probably mandatory to use a sdl-pango like mentioned but I don't
> see a python binding for that.

I am going to work on this this weeked, along with SDL_svg. I would hope
(and please comment on this if you are a pygame dev) that the patches
would be accepted into upstream. Pygame is a pretty thin layer over SDL,
so I don't anticipate this being difficult.

--Noah

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