Re: [pygame] PyGame user interface widgets

[Irv Kalb <Irv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> 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.)
> 
> 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).
> 
> My question is: Is there any "standard" user interface widget library that many PyGame developers use?
> 
> 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:
> 
> - pgu
> - pqGUI
> - sgc
> - Albow
> - gooeypy
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Irv
> 
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