Re: [pygame] pygame applets

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

campbell barton wrote:
> It would ROCK if you could run pygame in a web applet, pygame could
> then function like Shockwave (Macromedia Director) Pygames could be
> played on the net without any plugins? (as long as the viewer has
> java)
i've been thinking about pygame applets. one new feature in python2.3 is 
the ability to import python modules from inside ZIP archives. i was 
thinking with this it wouldn't be too hard to put an entire game inside 
a ZIP file. using an alternate extension (PYG?) would make it simple for 
the pygame installer to also install a little "stub" executable that 
would run the game.

getting the game to run in an embedded window would still be a bit of 
work, and i don't think really worth it? but getting a "click here to 
play" kind of thing would be a cool enough trick.

since its easy to load images right out off the web in pygame, a 'game 
loading' screen could come up pretty quick before the game got really going.

anyways, it's a cool idea. i don't think it would apply to all the games 
out there, but it would be neat for the smaller ones. i was going to 
examine this after python2.3 was really out. if i can get it running 
smooth then i'll add the stubs and support into pygame. it wouldn't be 
hard to make a "pygame runtime" package for windows users either. we'd 
just have to decide on some subset of the python standard lib to include.



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