Sane

How would I go about taking the surface data that pygame can give you ( Surface.get_palette() ) and saving it as a valid picture file?

DaWei

The formats vary widely, Sane, and have different characteristics even with the same type. MSDN has a great deal of information regarding .bmp files. There's a descriptive header that describes where the image data is located in the file, bits per pixel, color table, stuff like that. Other formats are handled similarly. If you don't have any luck (MSDN is sometimes hard to navigate), post back and I'll dig some stuff outta my tower's attic.

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Arevos

You can save a surface as a BMP or TGA file with:
You could also probably use PIL to write a function that enables you to save a surface to a PNG or a JPEG. But that's a more complex operation.

Sane

Wow....that's waaaay more simple then I thought. Wooohoo.

Cerulean

Very minimally. Just create the BMP, call Image.open, then Image.save, with the appropriate extension.

Arevos

Well, sure, if you want the easy way

I was thinking of using "tostring" and "fromstring" (or "frombuffer") to convert between the two without using an intermediate file.

Sane

I could very easily re-create paint in Python + Pygame then.

Thanks for ze help.

Cerulean

Yeah. There aren't any Python-based image editors out there are there? Up for a project?

Sane

Hmm, I'd need some ideas/motivation. What features could be within an image editor that would be very simple yet usefull and powerful?

I'm thinking a gradiet color fill tool, that'd be neat... hmm what else...

Ooble

How about vector graphics?

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