Re: [pygame] Polygon Objects

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

David J. C. Beach wrote:
> Is there any interest in having such functionality available in pygame?
There is interest in getting this in Python. Things can get a little tricky 
with shape classes because eventually a 'miraculous' design wants them all 
communicating with each other and replaceable by others.

I really don't think we need anything that amazing. A simple way to turn a 
Rect into a 4 sided polygon, and create a Rect from a polygon bounding area 
should be all that is needed. Then polygon functions can just deal with 
other polygons and not try to be overly flexible.

It would still be best to clean up the Poly functions from the Python code 
first. Got it anyplace people can peek? Collisions and Drawing are the only 
two main features I think of for polygons. Other features might be things 
like paths and booleans, but that starts to be more work. I think something 
simple and elegent would be a better starting place.