Ogre is dropping the SDL backend, so that's not a good long-term  
solution.

I'm only trying to use pygame for input, not graphics.  You still  
think it isn't going to work well?

-Mark Ivey-

On Aug 22, 2006, at 5:47 PM, René Dudfield wrote:

>  Can you get ogre to use the SDL backend?
> 
>  Using different gui tool kits almost never works out ok... without
>  lots of different kinds of trouble on different platforms.
> 
> 
>  On 8/23/06, Mark Ivey <zovirl1@[...].net> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get Ogre (for graphics) and pygame (for input) to play
> > together (glued together with Boost::Python, if it matters).  When
> > Ogre isn't using the SDL backend, pygame doesn't get any keyboard/
> > mouse events.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've tried two solutions, and had problems with both:
> >
> > 1) Pygame using Ogre's window, with SDL_WINDOWID.  Started with
> > pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600)).  My window was always black, as
> > if the pygame surface covered up the Ogre stuff.  Next, I tried
> > set_mode((1,1)).  Then the window shows Ogre's 3D stuff.  However, I
> > only get keyboard events, no mouse events.
> >
> > 2) Ogre using pygame's window.  I need to pass Ogre a window handle,
> > and on OSX, at least, pygame.display.get_wm_info() returns an empty
> > hash.  How do I get the window handle from pygame on OSX?
> >
> >
> > Any help getting past these problems would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> > -Mark Ivey-
> >