[OLPC-Games] Howto connect GTK mouse events to pygame events

[Noah Kantrowitz]

stas zytkiewicz wrote:
> On 5/29/07, Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> stas zytkiewicz wrote:
>> > Hi, I'm using the 'proof of concept' code from Noah Kantrowitz's
>> USInvaders
>> > to integrate schoolsplay into Sugar and it all works pretty well
>> except that
>> > the mouse events are not linked.
> [..]
>> The biggest reason I have not added this yet is there is still some
>> concern on the SDL vs. Cairo front. I'll look at adding this soon, if
>> only as an interim measure.
> Thanks, Noah that would be great.
> About the SDL vs Cairo.
> I was under the impression that SDL was the toolkit for edu-games on
> the XO?
> Anyway, if you add mouse support, I will demonstrate that SDL beats Cairo
> every time when doing edu-games ;-)
The API is PyGame, not SDL. The proposed alternative is to re-implement
the PyGame API using Cairo. This would take care of integrating things
like Pango and SVG rendering, which SDL lacks natively (and so does
PyGame). The other reason this might be a better option is that OLPC is
already committing to making Cairo run as as fast/effectively as it can
on the XO hardware. Is it really wise to divide our efforts? I'm not
saying this is obviously the way to go, but it should really be answered
at some point soon.

--Noah

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