[wxPython-dev] 2.8.7.0 coming soon

[Robin Dunn]

Peter Damoc wrote:
> Robin,
> I have one small request if is not too late...
> could you please make it so that wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA could take only 
> width and height and if the bytes are missing create an empty buffer in C++
> 
> Or maybe create a wx.EmptyBitmapRGBA that does just that.
> 
> your
> 
> def EmptyBitmapRGBA((width, height)):
>    bytes = array.array ('B', [0] * width*height*4)
>    return wx.BitmapFromBufferRGBA(width, height, bytes)
> 
> solution suggested some time back is wonderful, better than manually 
> setting the alpha of every bit BUT the creation of the array is insanely 
> SLOW.... i.e. for a buffer of (850, 564), that I need, it take 300 ms...

Does wx.EmptyBitmap(width, height, 32) work?  It should create a RGBA 
bitmap, but the content may not be initialized on all the platforms...


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