RE: [pygame] PyGame user interface widgets

[Yann Thorimbert <Yann.Thorimbert@xxxxxxxx>]

"From a quick look, I see the you have installers for Windows and Linux but not for Mac.  Will your library work on Macs?  Is it just missing an installer?  (I use a Mac for all my development.)"
==> the library is pure python-pygame. In fact, it absolutely does not need any installer. The installer is for users who are too lazy or don't know how to find the right folder in which thorpy directory should go.  So you just have to download the library and to either put it on the root of your project, or in the folder where python libraries are installed (e.g site-packages in general). Here is a tutorial for installation, but its truely easy and most people won't need it : http://thorpy.org/tutorials/install.html

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De : owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx <owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx> de la part de Irv Kalb <Irv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Envoyé : lundi 27 février 2017 17:41
À : pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Objet : Re: [pygame] PyGame user interface widgets

Thank you Yann and Dillup for the references to your libraries.  I will take a look at them in detail.

Yann:  From a quick look, I see the you have installers for Windows and Linux but not for Mac.  Will your library work on Macs?  Is it just missing an installer?  (I use a Mac for all my development.)

Thanks again,

Irv


> On Feb 26, 2017, at 9:32 AM, Yann Thorimbert <Yann.Thorimbert@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Irv,
>
> I wrote (and now maintain) a library called ThorPy (www.thorpy.org) that could fulfill your requirements.
> On the website, I focused on the examples and turoials, so I hope it would be easier for a new person to use the library quickly. However, I have to admit that the library does not seem to be used by many people...
>
> Here is an overview of some of the widgets: http://thorpy.org/examples/overview.html
> Examples : http://thorpy.org/examples.html
> Tutorials : http://thorpy.org/tutorials.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yann
> ________________________________________
> De : owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx <owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx> de la part de Irv Kalb <Irv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Envoyé : dimanche 26 février 2017 05:21
> À : pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Objet : [pygame] PyGame user interface widgets
>
> I teach Python programming at two different universities.  At one of my schools, there is enough time for students to do a final project.  I give them a background in event-driven programming, give them an overview in PyGame, and encourage them to build a small PyGame based project.
>
> I have just petitioned for and gotten approval to teach a new course on Object Oriented Programing.  In that course, I will again use Python and focus on explaining OOP concepts using PyGame.  (I'm really looking forward to this.)
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> However, in order to make things easy for my students, I would like to supply them with a library (module) of easy to use user interface widgets.  For example, a simple button, text display box, text input box, checkbox, etc.  I started by giving out Al Sweigart's PygButton code to my students, and that worked great.  Then some students asked for a text display box, then a text input box.  I wound up building those myself.  Along the way, I wrote additions to Al's PygButton code (for example, adding a disabled state).
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> My question is: Is there any "standard" user interface widget library that many PyGame developers use?
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> I have done quite a bit of research on this topic, and have found a few libraries of widgets like what I'm looking for.  I've found:
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> - pgu
> - pqGUI
> - sgc
> - Albow
> - gooeypy
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> These all seem to attempt to solve the same problem (of creating a set of user interface widgets), but they all have different approaches.  Some seem to take over the basic event loop.  And most don't seem to be current - I haven't found any that have comments after around 2012.
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> So ... is there one on this list, or one that I haven't found, that seems current and is simple to use?  Or maybe, I'll just keep expanding my own.
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> Thanks,
>
> Irv
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