Release News
This describes the latest changes between the PySDL2 releases.
0.6.0
Released on 2013-09-01.
- new sdl2.ext.FontManager.size attribute, which gives a default size
to be used for adding fonts or rendering text
- updated sdl2 to include the latest changes of SDL2
- sdl2.ext.RenderContext.copy() accepts any 4-value sequence as source
or destination rectangle now
- issue #11: throw an ImportError instead of a
RuntimeError, if a third-party DLL could not be imported
properly
- fixed a bug in the installation code, which caused sdl2.examples not
to install the required resources
Thanks to Steven Johnson for his enhancements to the FontManager class.
Thanks to Marcel Rodrigues for the improvements to RenderContext.copy().
0.5.0
Released on 2013-08-14.
- new sdl2.ext.FontManager class, which provides simple TTF font
rendering.
- new sdl2.ext.SpriteFactory.from_text() method, which creates
text sprites
- put the SDL2 dll path at the beginning of PATH, if a PYSDL2_DLL_PATH
is provided to avoid loading issues for third party DLLs on Win32
platforms
- minor documentation fixes
Thanks to Dan Gillett for providing the FontManager and from_text()
enhancements and his patience regarding all the small change requests.
Thanks to Mihail Latyshov for providing fixes to the documentation.
0.4.1
Released on 2013-07-26.
Thanks to Steven Johnson, Todd Rovito, Bil Bas and Dan McCombs for
providing fixes and improvements.
0.4.0
Released on 2013-06-08.
- new sdl2.sdlmixer module, which provides access to the
SDL2_mixer library
- issue #1: fixed libc loading for cases where libc.so is a ld script
- updated sdl2 and sdl2.sdlimage to include the latest
changes of the libraries, they wrap
0.3.0
Released on 2013-05-07.
0.2.0
Released on 2013-05-03.
- removed sdl2.ext.scene; it now lives in python-utils
- fixed sdl2.haptic module usage for Python 3
- fixed sdl2.SDL_WindowGetData() and sdl2.SDL_WindowSetData()
wrappers
- fixed sdl2.ext.RenderContext.copy()
- fixed sdl2.ext.font module usage for Python 3
- fixed sdl2.ext.line()
- sdl2 imports all submodules now
- improved documentation
0.1.0
Released on 2013-04-23.