Re: [pygame] 2D opengl engine

[altern <enrike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi mike

> > We were interested on
> > implementing a event handling systems and classes that would respond to
> > these events in a similar way as Macromedia Flash or Director sprites
> > system do. For this we have developed a event handler that receives the
> > events from wx and sends them to the objects that are intersected by the
> > mouse. This is of course a wx based system and it wouldnt work for
> > pygame or GLUT.
> >
> > We have decided that we should release the drawing part of it so that
> > people using pygame or glut could benefit from this work. At first we
> > tried to create a event handling system that would work for all systems
> > with little change but we couldnt find a way to do this.
> > So we stripped down the event handling system and the mouse related
> > classes so that the only thing left is the core basic shapes and the
> > rendering system.
>
>
> ...
>
> Somewhat tangential to your announcement, but since you mention that 
> you're struggling with it, you may find that the event system in 
> OpenGLContext gives you some ideas.  It works with PyGame, GLUT or 
> wxPython (with partial support for Tkinter).  The key is that it 
> implements a fairly complete event system itself, and then provides 
> shims between the host GUI and that system.  The event system has both 
> global event types (e.g. keyboard events) and location-aware ones (e.g. 
> mouse events) that have access to the node-path through the scenegraph 
> leading to the geometry involved.
>
> Nothing to do with Flash or Director, though, and it's all 
> perspectival-3D focused... but might be useful as a bit of example code 
> anyway.

interesting. i havent paid much attention to openglcontext since it 
didnt work with my current version of python but i will definitelly have 
a deeper look into it.

thanks for your tip


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enrike