svg loading library I plan to use..

tartley on 2009/07/28 13:22
— edited on 2009/07/28 13:25

I plan to enter my first PyWeek this August, and will probably will use an SVG loading library I recently cobbled together after dissecting Squirtle.

svgload

My version is inferior to Squirtle in every respect. It doesn't handle arcs or beziers or gradient fills or line paths. However, it does produce indexed vertex arrays of GL_TRIANGLES for use in pyglet Batches, rather than display lists. The GLU polygon tessellation code is directly lifted from Squirtle, under the terms of the BSD.

Is there anywhere else I should notify people of its existence in order for it to qualify as useable in next month's PyWeek?

Thanks all. Tartley

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adam on 2009/07/28 15:14:

Mentioning it here is fine as far as notifying people of its existence is concerned. There's an additional requirement, though, that any library you plan to use be documented at least to the point where someone else can figure out how to use it without looking at your code (otherwise, you're leaving other users of the library at a disadvantage compared to yourself, which defeats the point of the library rule in the first place). The README.TXT file in Squirtle (since you obviously have that to hand) is probably a good example of what is required.

richard on 2009/07/29 00:40:

Kudos Tartley!

What adam said :)

richard on 2009/07/29 00:43:

I'd like to also note that there's code I wrote to render SVG lines, including curves, in the pyglet examples directory. It generates pyglet batches.

richard on 2009/07/29 00:43:

Sorry, I meant in the experimental directory.

tartley on 2009/07/30 13:53:

@Adam: Thanks for that. I've documented it now, at http://code.google.com/p/svgload/ @Richard: Ahar! Thanks heaps for that, I'll check it out. Looking forward to it!