PIL Image to PyOpengl glDrawPixels

[Pete Shinners]

Joe Connellan wrote:

>     I'm opening an image using
> 
> import Image
> 
> im = Image.open("/tmp/image.bmp")
> imgData = im.getData()
> 
> which returns a nested list of integers like this
> imgData[width*height][3]
> 
> How do I go about formating this for the following glDrawPixels?


you'll want to use the 'tostring' function from PIL. this will convert
the image into a string of byte-data. that is what you pass to 
glDrawPixels. also be sure to use the vertical-flip option for tostring,
since opengl looks at images bottom to top :]