Description
Issue №1434 opened by robertpfeiffer at 2019-10-18 11:16:36
Putting this up for discussion:
Can we store a flag that tracks whether a surface has been modified, so that every blit, draw, or set_at operation sets that flag to True, with methods to retrieve or clear that flag? This might be very useful for writing code that copies textures to the GPU (SDL_Renderer/GL) and updates them only when they have been changed.
Related Docs: https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html
Comments
# # illume commented at 2019-10-18 21:51:00
Yeah, I guess this is possible.
Won't be able to catch all changes, but probably many.
The hard one will be detecting changes in a buffer/array, or shared memory situation.
# # humanbeast7 commented at 2019-10-21 11:53:02
to me, it's sounds like you suggested turning all surfaces to Dirty Sprites with less features
which will make Sprites and non-dirty Groups irrelevant
# # robertpfeiffer commented at 2019-10-21 17:58:22
to me, it's sounds like you suggested turning all surfaces to Dirty Sprites with less features
which will make Sprites and non-dirty Groups irrelevant
Basically, I'd like to know if we can make DirtySprites automatically dirty.