pyGame within a pyGTK application

Question

What is the best way to use PyGame (SDL) within a PyGTK application?

I\'m searching for a method that allows me to have a drawing area in the GTK window and at the s

Answer 1

http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?file=faq23.042.htp&req=show mentions it all:

You need to create a drawing area and set the environment variable SDL_WINDOWID after it's realized:

 import os

 import gobject
 import gtk
 import pygame

 WINX = 400
 WINY = 200

 window = gtk.Window()
 window.connect('delete-event', gtk.main_quit)
 window.set_resizable(False)
 area = gtk.DrawingArea()
 area.set_app_paintable(True)
 area.set_size_request(WINX, WINY)
 window.add(area)
 area.realize()

 # Force SDL to write on our drawing area
 os.putenv('SDL_WINDOWID', str(area.window.xid))

 # We need to flush the XLib event loop otherwise we can't
 # access the XWindow which set_mode() requires
 gtk.gdk.flush()

 pygame.init()
 pygame.display.set_mode((WINX, WINY), 0, 0)
 screen = pygame.display.get_surface()

 image_surface = pygame.image.load('foo.png')
 screen.blit(image_surface, (0, 0))

 gobject.idle_add(pygame.display.update)

 window.show_all()

 while gtk.event_pending():
     # pygame/SDL event processing goes here
     gtk.main_iteration(False)