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Pygame TutorialsSetting Display Modes
by Pete Shinnerspete@shinners.org
Revision 1.1, May 21, 2002
Introduction
Setting the display mode in pygame creates a visible image surface on the monitor. This surface can either cover the full screen, or be windowed on platforms that support a window manager. The display surface is nothing […]

A Newbie Guide to pygame
or
Things I learned by trial and error so you don�t have to.
or
How I learned to stop worrying and love the blit.
Pygame is a python wrapper for SDL, written by Pete Shinners. What this means is that, […]

Python Pygame Introduction
by Pete Shinners
pete@shinners.org
This article is an introduction to the Pygame library for Python programmers. The original version appeared in the Py Zine, volume 1 issue 3. This version contains minor revisions, to create an all around better article. Pygame is a Python extension library that wraps the SDL […]

pygame   documentation

||  Home  ||  Help Contents  ||  || pygame || cdrom || constants || display || draw || event |||| font || image || joystick || key || mixer || mixer_music |||| mouse || movie || sndarray || surfarray || time || transform || || CD || Channel || Clock || Font […]

Title: Fractal Example
Author: Pete Shinners (pete at shinners.org)Submission date: April 19, 2001
Description: An example of animated colormaps

Download: fractal.zip
pygame version required: AnySDL version required: AnyPython version required: 2.0
Comments: Palette cycling or […]

Title: Word-wrapped text display module
Author: David Clark (da_clark at shaw.ca)Submission date: May 23, 2001
Description: This module contains one function: render_textrect, which will try to return a surface […]

State Space Searching in Tcl

This page explores the use of Tcl for searching a state space from a problem. I define a GeneralSearch algorithm in Tcl, and then go on to define BreadthFirst and DepthFirst searches. Later, I might add heuristic search methods such as A*, iterative […]

The site is interesting as it includes a picture at the end of each page, but you can�t select the picture. It turns out the picture is specified in the CSS < http://wiki.tcl.tk/wikit-css.css>. A good trick for doing a signiture.

/* Style for the page footer which uses <p id=�footer�>  */#footer {   […]

OilCurrent version: 0.1.1
Oil is an extension to Tcl which provides a high-level method to control graphics, effects and other media systems. Writing simple screens with FX and animation is almost laughably easy. At the time of writing it provides:

Objects stacked on top of each other and acting individually.
All manipulations happen in […]

Programming in Brainfuck
Your First Program
Just to review, the Brainfuck instructions are:

Instruction  
Description

>
Increment the pointer

<
Decrement the pointer

+
Increment the byte at the pointer

-
Decrement the byte at the pointer

.
Output the byte at the pointer

,
Input a byte and store it in the byte at the pointer

[
Start a loop: […]

The ctypes module
overview :: tutorial :: reference :: faq
( Work in progress: COM :: COM sample )
Overview
ctypes is a Python package to create and manipulate C data types in Python, and to call functions in dynamic link libraries/shared dlls. It allows wrapping these libraries in pure Python.
It works on […]

Charming Python: A review of Python IDEsThe raw and the cooked
David Mertz, Ph.D. (mertz@gnosis.cx)Accidental Ideologue, Gnosis Software, Inc.1 May 2001

David Mertz looks at a half-dozen Python integrated development environments, and compares their features, platforms, and stability. He finds — perhaps as an unintended testament to […]

The os module provides dozens of functions for interacting with the operating system:

>>> import os
>>> os.system(�time 0:02�)
0
>>> os.getcwd() # Return the current working directory
�C:\Python24�
>>> os.chdir(�/server/accesslogs�)

Be sure to use the “import os” style instead of “from os import *“. This will […]

Unicodeseries

Unicode

UTF

UTF-7

UTF-8

UTF-16

UTF-32

BiDi

BOM

Consortium

UCS
A Byte Order Mark (BOM) is the character at code point FEFF (ZERO-WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE), when that character is used to denote the Endianness of an encoded string of UCS/Unicode characters.
A BOM can be used to […]

Installation Notes for Snack and Python

Snack must currently be used in conjunction with […]

SR Research is pleased to announce the latest exciting development for the EyeLink II eye tracker; the EyeLink II Scene Camera option. With the Scene Camera option, EyeLink II users can track gaze position on a real world scene video being captured from a head […]

Development Card

The EyeLink II Development Kit will allow users to setup an EyeLink II system that can be used for development/testing purposes. The PCI card is the same as […]

Author
Thread

suganthan Nov 25, 2003 07:04:55
Re: PyLink\�s EYELINK object and the simulation mode problem You need to have the tracker connected. Also, if you are not using standard ip for your tracker(100.1.1.1) you need to modify the pyLinkDefaults.py to match your […]

Plug-ins
With NewsGator 1.2 or later, you can now post directly to your weblog from NewsGator. To do this:

Download and install the appropriate plug-in for the weblog software you are using.
From the NewsGator menu, choose Options, and click the Posting tab. […]