Re: [pygame] Classless Utilities?

["Simon Wittber" <simonwittber@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/13/06, Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was just thinking of revising my music/sound functions, which are thin
> wrappers for Pygame's. One thing that struck me: I'd put most of the
> code into a JukeBox class, so that to play a sound you'd have to create
> an instance of it and pass a reference to it to any other object that
> needed to be able to play sounds. The point of making the class was to
> centralize the jukebox's data, eg. the set of loaded sounds. Otherwise
> I'd have bunch of functions and variables lying around in the music
> file, not linked to a particular object. It seems like the right thing
> to do, for the sake of having any part of my program able to play sound
> effects, but kind of inelegant. Thoughts?

Have a look at the singleton or borg pattern. It's just what you are
after. The Python Cookcook has quite a few different implementations
which can guide you in the right direction.

-Sw.