Again, thanks to all who replied. We are hacking our way through the Pygame jungle...
PygameZero is intriguing. However, we are still not comfortable with making classes (Sprite or Actor). I realize it's "easier", but it's easier for me, not for an average 9th grade student. We will continue hacking away because we believe that BlitzBasic, even though it delivers a very good intro to text coding, is no longer supported and so doesn't offer a good path forward. I do appreciate the many offers of assistance, code samples, suggestions.... Perhaps after the end of our marking period, I'll post a couple code samples from our students, and that will give everyone an idea of where we are and where we're headed.... Thanks again, Bob Irving Porter-Gaud School Charleston, SC On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Sam Bull <sam.hack...@sent.com> wrote: > I think there are a lot of ideas getting thrown at you. If you are still > a little unsure of how to proceed, it might be a good idea to give a > little example program you might expect one of your students to write > (or a previous example from Blitz Basic) so we can get a better idea of > what kind of interface you are looking for. > > I suspect using Sprites would give you a good interface for the > collision and adding them into a group would give an easy interface for > the blitting and updating for you. Note, also, that you can subclass the > Sprite class and define an update method for each object independently. > > I'm unsure of whether you are looking to hide the entire game loop, or > just simplify the keyboard handling within it, so an example of what you > expect would be useful. > > > On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 14:41 -0400, Bob Irving wrote: > > def imagesCollide(pic1,p1x,p1y,pic2,p2x,p2y): > > aRect = pic1.get_rect(center=[p1x,p1y]) > > bRect = pic2.get_rect(center=[p2x,p2y]) > > > > if aRect.colliderect(bRect): > > return True; > > else: > > return False; > > Minor niggle on style, but last 4 lines should be simply: > > return aRect.colliderect(bRect) > > And, don't use semi-colons at end of lines, they are for putting > multiple statements on one line (and that should be avoided 99.99% of > the time). > > -- Twitter: @birv2 www.bob-irving.com http://www.scoop.it/t/on-the-digital-frontier
