Re: [Pdl-porters] Interfacing SDL Surface with a piddle

[email protected] (Kartik Thakore)
Newsgroups perl.sdl.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Chris,

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/27/2010 10:59 AM, Kartik Thakore wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Ok I looked at get_dataref. But I still don't understand why the
>> surface->pixels is swaped out when a piddle is written. Both of the
>> Devel::Peek for the get_dataref and surface->get_pixels is the exact same.
>>
>
> get_dataref is a perl reference to the data section of
> the piddle.  The surface->pixels is just a pointer to
> the pixel data.  I see no copying of data in the code so
> it doesn't seem like they should be the same.
>

Right be surface->pixels is wrapped into a reference.


>
> I notice on the page you reference for the XS stuff that
> there is a surface_new_from routine.  Have you tried
> creating a piddle of data the size and structure of the
> surface and then creating the desired surface from that?
>
>
This is a good idea. How do I make a piddle of bytes 4 * $width * $height ?


> At least you would have all the surface and piddle data
> in the same spot which seems to be your difficulty here
>

This might be easier indeed, thanks.

--Chris
>
>  On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 6/26/2010 10:49 PM, Kartik Thakore wrote:
>>
>>        Right but where is the piddle xs code?
>>
>>
>>    It is in Basic/Core in the PDL  directory.
>>    The piddle data is in the string of the perl scalar.
>>    That way it gets the advantage of the perl memory
>>    allocation/freeing...
>>
>>    --Chris
>>
>>        On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Chris Marshall
>>        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>        <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>>            On 6/26/2010 10:10 PM, Kartik Thakore wrote:
>>
>>                What SV_type is getdata_ref using? where can I find that?
>>
>>
>>            You can get a copy of the PDL source from CPAN
>>            and that should explain things.
>>
>>            --Chris
>>
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