I looked over the ThorPy examples on your site and it was all very easy to understand. Kudos!
~ Michael > Hi Yann, > > I made one, too, a couple of years ago. Here it is: > http://www.burtonsys.com/download/DavesGUI.zip > > It sounds like yours is probably more complete than mine, but if there's > anything in mine which is useful to you, please feel free to plagiarize > (per the notice in the comment block at the top of the main source file). > > The documentation is weak, though it does work with pydoc, and there are a > lot of comments in the source code. The "demo" starts at line number 2730. > > To demo it, just unzip the files into a folder, and run DavesGUI.py -- then > drag things around, click them, etc. > > (DavesGUIdemo1.py also runs, but it's an older & weaker demo; I just > included it so that you can see an example of the "import" statements.) > > Prerequisites are Python 3.1 or later, or Python 2.6 or later 2.x, and > pygame. > > A design goal was to make it easily "drop in" to existing pygame games, > using the existing games' existing event loops. GUI elements ("widgets") > are subclassed from pygame.sprite.Sprite, and user actions generate regular > pygame events. > > A widget is a sprite that can receive pygame events via its notify() > method. Unlike simpler sprites, some widgets can generate pygame events > representing things like button or menu clicks, entered text, etc. > > Also, widgets can contain WidgetGroups of other widgets (as .children). > > I didn't really finish it, but I implemented simple and 3D buttons, > checkboxes, vertical menus, single-line text-entry boxes, modal and > non-modal message boxes, vertical and horizontal scroll bars, and forms. > Forms can contain other widgets, including other forms, and they can be > nested to arbitrary depth. Overlapping widgets are handled properly, as > are dragging and resizing. > > As a favor to me, if you try it out or use it for anything, please take > notes: a log of your frustrations, and what the documentation SHOULD HAVE > told you, and what the code SHOULD HAVE done. As you accumulate such notes, > please send them to me periodically. > > Best regards, > > Dave > > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Yann Thorimbert <yann.thorimb...@unige.ch> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > As many people did, I have been looking for a GUI for pygame. Naturally, I > > have found this page : http://www.pygame.org/tags/gui . However, 'GUI's > > there did not entirely fit my needs. I therefore wrote my own pygame GUI, > > ThorPy, that I would like to share with other people. > > > > You can find it at http://www.thorpy.org. Any critics and remarks are > > welcome. > > > > Also, I have another request : since I cannot sign up to pygame.org, > > could someone add my library website to the ones on > > http://www.pygame.org/tags/gui ? (I've been trying to subscribe to > > pygame.org for weeks, with no success :( ) Thanks! > > > > Regards, > > > > Yann Thorimbert
