Maybe I'm missing something here, but why are you calling the mainloop of each menu every iteration? It seems like if you only called the mainloop for the active menu, there would be no need to disable or cancel the menu.
You could just have a single menu object assigned to None. Then if they hit 1 or 2, call methods that create and return the menu and set to menu. In your loop you can say if menu is not None: menu.mainloop(events). Then in your event delegate, if you want to close the menu, just set menu back to None and re render your background UI. You may also want to consider what events you should delegate to the menu and which you should capture for yourself. Eg. You may want to prefilter the events and handle the pygame.quit event yourself. On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 1:59 AM Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the cross post, I posted an issue to the project's github page > here: > > https://github.com/ppizarror/pygame-menu/issues/19 > > For anyone interested, note the fix I posted there. Feedback invited. > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:08 PM Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:03 PM Daniel Foerster <pydsig...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The way to find out what item is selected is to use a different function >>> for different menu items. This seems to be callback driven. >>> >> >> Thanks, got that one. >> >> How do you close a menu? I'm honestly not sure why your example doesn't >>> work as expected. I downloaded and ran the example successfully, but no >>> amount of tweaking to your application worked for me. My honest suggestion >>> would be to find a different menu library; this one seems to have a number >>> of other issues, including throwing a NameError whenever the menu tries to >>> quit pygame. >>> >> >> I noticed that error too, easily fixed (add "_" to pygame in every call >> to pygame.exit() ), but I agree, it's a warning sign about the library in >> general. It's pretty much perfect for my needs though, so I'm hoping >> there's an easy fix that enables simply closing a menu when an item is >> selected. >> >> Or if anyone happens to know of another menu library, one that ideally: >> >> - allows for menus to be easily opened and closed >> >> - allows more than one column of menu items >> >> - allows for graphical elements in the menu items >> >> I'd love to hear about it. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 11:10 PM Alec Bennett <wrybr...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm trying to add the beautiful menus from Pygame-menu ( >>>> https://github.com/ppizarror/pygame-menu) to my project, but having >>>> trouble. In my attached stripped down sample, I'm trying to show menu1 when >>>> the 1 key is pressed, and show menu2 when the 2 key is pressed. They're >>>> both "main menus" launched from the root of the app, as opposed to one >>>> being a submenu of the other. >>>> >>>> My questions: >>>> >>>> - how can I find out what item was selected in the menu? Clicking a >>>> selection triggers the item_selected() function, but doesn't send any info >>>> about which item was selected. >>>> >>>> - how can I close a menu? Running menu1.disable() in item_selected() >>>> doesn't close the menu... How do I close the menu when something is >>>> selected? >>>> >>>> Ideally in this sample I'd like to launch menu1 when the 1 key is >>>> pressed, choose a selection, print info about what was selected, and return >>>> to the root of the app. Then pressing keyboard 2 launches menu2, repeating >>>> the process. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help, and apologies if I'm missing something obvious >>>> here. >>>> >>>> >>>>
