Re: [pygame] Gui

[Bob Ippolito <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 25, 2005, at 10:34 PM, iceagelabs@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I would like to add a GUI to make it easier to program my game  
> engine.I was going to use Tkinter and Pygame together,but I found  
> out that they don't seem to play well together.So my question  
> is :do I try to use Pygame for the Gui, or do I use Tkinter,or  
> could someone suggest a Gui toolkit that works good with Pygame?

It's not technically possible to have a cross-platform GUI toolkit  
that works well with pygame UNLESS the toolkit is also written in  
pygame.  Effectively, if you want multiple windows and native  
widgets, you can't use pygame.

There are platform-specific exceptions (i.e. you can use Cocoa with  
pygame on Mac OS X, just not in the same window), but SDL (the  
toolkit behind the core of pygame) makes no guarantees about any  
compatibility with other toolkits now or in the future and it doesn't  
currently allow for multiple windows.

-bob