Re: [pygame] GSoC Proposal: Basic gui system

["RB[0]" <roebros@xxxxxxxxx>]

Having written a few pygame guis, I agree with Marcus and Ian.
But, having said that, it would be possible to make a powerful enough gui that is rather abstract, but still is useful, you just need to do it correctly. A basic gui that fits in with the event system (to get, suppress, and return), with app and widget classes that can handle every kind of input/rendering would suffice for the extensibility.
Then you can add simple things like buttons/labels/etc.

I am sure a lot of people would use it - which may be reason enough to do it. But personally I still don't think it will be worth it - simple widgets are trivial to write...

Cheers

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which is why a GUI backend within pygame was never realised. There is no
ultimate design approach and having just a bunch of abstract base
classes for users to implement is not worth the work :-).

I completely agree.  Arguably, making a GUI from scratch can be time consuming, but GUI's tend to differ a lot.  For example, some games, such as asteroids and other arcade games, need simple centered menus.   My new image filtering program has a GUI that emphasizes linking windows and other stuff.  It would be hard--in my view impossible--to generalize all the possible needs down to a few classes and have it still be easier to use than an improvised solution.
Ian