Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
Terry Reedy wrote: On 5/11/2015 8:42 PM, zipher wrote: Huh? VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with discrete events. That's a discrete approximation to a continuous process. The term discrete event simulation is usually used to mean modelling a process that is inherently discrete, e.g. sending data packets over a network. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
On 11 May 2015 at 16:22, Tommy C tommyc168...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your help. I have updated the code as follows, there are no more errors but the images will not move at all, as all the images are staying at the upper left corner. Please advice, thanks. import sys, pygame pygame.init() size = width, height = 800, 600 black = [0,0,0] screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size) class BALL: def __init__(self,image): self.ball = pygame.image.load(image) self.ballrect = self.ball.get_rect() self.speed= [2, 2] def control(self): ballmove = self.ballrect.move(self.speed) if ballmove.left 0 or ballmove.right width: self.speed[0] = -self.speed[0] if ballmove.top 0 or ballmove.bottom height: self.speed[1] = -self.speed[1] The function below should not be a method on a particular ball object as it is the global event loop for pygame. This needs to be a top level function that updates the animation for all balls. def settings(self): clock = pygame.time.Clock() screen.fill(black) screen.blit(self.ball, self.ballrect) pygame.display.flip() clock.tick(60) while 1: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: sys.exit() In this loop you need to add code that will call the control() method of each ball and then redraw the screen. At the moment you only draw the objects once at the top of the settings() method. Then the loop runs until you quit. So it should be something like: # The functions below would make sense as methods of an App class. def run(): while 1: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type = pygame.QUIT: sys.exit() update() draw() def update(): for ball in balls: ball.control() def draw(): screen.fill(black) for ball in balls: ball.draw() # You need to add this method to BALL pygame.display.flip() balls = [BALL(spongebob.png), BALL(jaws.jpg)] run() # Actually runs the program's event loop. -- Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
On 5/11/2015 8:42 PM, zipher wrote: On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:25:09 PM UTC-5, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2015 08:33:56 -0700 (PDT), zipher dreamingforw...@gmail.com declaimed the following: You are making a error that few in the programming community have caught up to. OOP design for *data abstraction* is a completely different beast that OOP for *simulation*. The confusion is around the use of the word object which both denotes a physical world item and a virtual one detached from reality. I would say that Python might not be the right fit, but instead a language dedicated to simulation. The danger there is that a language dedicated to simulation might mean discrete event simulation -- which would be an even worse fit to a problem of particle motion simulation. Huh? VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with discrete events. I don't see how you're going to update a variable non-discretely. Tensors? Good luck. Mark -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
Thanks for your help. I have updated the code as follows, there are no more errors but the images will not move at all, as all the images are staying at the upper left corner. Please advice, thanks. import sys, pygame pygame.init() size = width, height = 800, 600 black = [0,0,0] screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size) class BALL: def __init__(self,image): self.ball = pygame.image.load(image) self.ballrect = self.ball.get_rect() self.speed= [2, 2] def control(self): ballmove = self.ballrect.move(self.speed) if ballmove.left 0 or ballmove.right width: self.speed[0] = -self.speed[0] if ballmove.top 0 or ballmove.bottom height: self.speed[1] = -self.speed[1] def settings(self): clock = pygame.time.Clock() screen.fill(black) screen.blit(self.ball, self.ballrect) pygame.display.flip() clock.tick(60) while 1: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: sys.exit() bob = BALL(spongebob.png) bob.control() bob.settings() patrick = BALL(patrick.jpg) patrick.speed[0] = 5 patrick.speed[1] = 8 patrick.control() patrick.settings() jaws = BALL(jaws.jpg) jaws.speed[0] = 1 jaws.speed[1] = 10 jaws.control() jaws.settings() On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 11:40:46 AM UTC-4, Tommy C wrote: I'm trying to apply OOP in this bouncing ball code in order to have multiple balls bouncing around the screen. The objective of this code is to create a method called settings, which controls all the settings for the screen and the bouncing behaviour of multiple balls, under the class Ball. However, I keep on getting errors related to attributes (e.g., speed). I'm new to OOP in Python so your help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. import pygame import random import sys pygame.init() class Ball: def __init__(self, X, Y): self.velocity = [1,1] self.ball_image = pygame.image.load (ball.jpg) self.ball_boundary = self.ball_image.get_rect () self.black = [0,0,0] self.width = 800 self.height = 600 self.num = 8 self.X = random.randint(0, self.width) self.Y = random.randint(0, self.height) def settings(self): #X = random.randint(0, self.width) #Y = random.randint(0, self.height) clock = pygame.time.Clock() size = self.width, self.height screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size) ball_boundary = self.ball_image.get_rect() speed = self.velocity pic = self.ball_image pygame.display.set_caption(Balls) num_balls = self.num ball_list = [] for i in range(num_balls): ball_list.append( Ball(random.randint(10, self.width-10),random.randint(10, self.height-10)) ) while 1: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: sys.exit(0) screen.fill(self.black) for balls in ball_list: if balls.ball_boundary.left 0 or balls.ball_boundary.right self.width: balls.speed[0] = -balls.speed[0] if balls.ball_boundary.top 0 or balls.ball_boundary.bottom self.height: balls.speed[1] = -balls.speed[1] balls.ball_boundary = balls.ball_boundary.move (self.velocity) screen.blit (balls.ball_image, balls.ball_boundary) pygame.display.flip() play = Ball(random.randint(0, 800), random.randint(0, 600)) play.settings() Message File Name LinePosition Traceback module C:\\Multiple_balls_TC.py63 settings C:\\Multiple_balls_TC.py56 AttributeError: Ball instance has no attribute 'speed' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 10:40:46 AM UTC-5, Tommy C wrote: I'm trying to apply OOP in this bouncing ball code in order to have multiple balls bouncing around the screen. The objective of this code is to create a method called settings, which controls all the settings for the screen and the bouncing behaviour of multiple balls, under the class Ball. However, I keep on getting errors related to attributes (e.g., speed). I'm new to OOP in Python so your help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. You are making a error that few in the programming community have caught up to. OOP design for *data abstraction* is a completely different beast that OOP for *simulation*. The confusion is around the use of the word object which both denotes a physical world item and a virtual one detached from reality. I would say that Python might not be the right fit, but instead a language dedicated to simulation. Mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:25:09 PM UTC-5, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2015 08:33:56 -0700 (PDT), zipher dreamingforw...@gmail.com declaimed the following: You are making a error that few in the programming community have caught up to. OOP design for *data abstraction* is a completely different beast that OOP for *simulation*. The confusion is around the use of the word object which both denotes a physical world item and a virtual one detached from reality. I would say that Python might not be the right fit, but instead a language dedicated to simulation. The danger there is that a language dedicated to simulation might mean discrete event simulation -- which would be an even worse fit to a problem of particle motion simulation. Huh? VPython successfully models particle motion simulation with discrete events. I don't see how you're going to update a variable non-discretely. Tensors? Good luck. Mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
I'm trying to apply OOP in this bouncing ball code in order to have multiple balls bouncing around the screen. The objective of this code is to create a method called settings, which controls all the settings for the screen and the bouncing behaviour of multiple balls, under the class Ball. However, I keep on getting errors related to attributes (e.g., speed). I'm new to OOP in Python so your help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. import pygame import random import sys pygame.init() class Ball: def __init__(self, X, Y): self.velocity = [1,1] self.ball_image = pygame.image.load (ball.jpg) self.ball_boundary = self.ball_image.get_rect () self.black = [0,0,0] self.width = 800 self.height = 600 self.num = 8 self.X = random.randint(0, self.width) self.Y = random.randint(0, self.height) def settings(self): #X = random.randint(0, self.width) #Y = random.randint(0, self.height) clock = pygame.time.Clock() size = self.width, self.height screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size) ball_boundary = self.ball_image.get_rect() speed = self.velocity pic = self.ball_image pygame.display.set_caption(Balls) num_balls = self.num ball_list = [] for i in range(num_balls): ball_list.append( Ball(random.randint(10, self.width-10),random.randint(10, self.height-10)) ) while 1: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: sys.exit(0) screen.fill(self.black) for balls in ball_list: if balls.ball_boundary.left 0 or balls.ball_boundary.right self.width: balls.speed[0] = -balls.speed[0] if balls.ball_boundary.top 0 or balls.ball_boundary.bottom self.height: balls.speed[1] = -balls.speed[1] balls.ball_boundary = balls.ball_boundary.move (self.velocity) screen.blit (balls.ball_image, balls.ball_boundary) pygame.display.flip() play = Ball(random.randint(0, 800), random.randint(0, 600)) play.settings() Message File Name LinePosition Traceback moduleC:\\Multiple_balls_TC.py63 settingsC:\\Multiple_balls_TC.py56 AttributeError: Ball instance has no attribute 'speed' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
On May 8, 2015 9:46 AM, Tommy C tommyc168...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to apply OOP in this bouncing ball code in order to have multiple balls bouncing around the screen. The objective of this code is to create a method called settings, which controls all the settings for the screen and the bouncing behaviour of multiple balls, under the class Ball. However, I keep on getting errors related to attributes (e.g., speed). I'm new to OOP in Python so your help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. As the error says, the attribute does not exist. class Ball: def __init__(self, X, Y): self.velocity = [1,1] Here where you set it, you call it velocity. speed = self.velocity Here you create a local variable called speed, which you never use. if balls.ball_boundary.left 0 or balls.ball_boundary.right self.width: balls.speed[0] = -balls.speed[0] And here you look up an attribute of Ball called speed, which doesn't match the name you used in __init__. This is a muddled design overall. Your Ball class represents the individual balls bouncing around the screen. It should not also contain details about window size and the logic for the event loop. Use a separate class for that. Similarly, if the purpose of your settings method is to manage settings, why does it also contain all the bouncing logic? These should probably be separate methods. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to properly apply OOP in the bouncing ball code
On Fri, 08 May 2015 08:40:34 -0700, Tommy C wrote: I'm trying to apply OOP in this bouncing ball code in order to have multiple balls bouncing around the screen. The objective of this code is to create a method called settings, which controls all the settings for the screen and the bouncing behaviour of multiple balls, under the class Ball. However, I keep on getting errors related to attributes (e.g., speed). I'm new to OOP in Python so your help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. I did something similar, with little characters running around the screen under joystick control. What I think: 1. Each instance of the Ball class should control the behaviour of one ball. 2. The screen settings and global environment generally should be global, not stuffed inside the behaviour of a Ball. 3. Keeping the list of Ball instances should be something the main section of your program does, not stuffed inside the behaviour of a Ball. Each of my little GamePlayer objects is subclassed from pygame.sprite.Sprite . I forget what I got by doing this (it's old code) but looking up the docs for that class might give you some insights. Each GamePlayer object has an update method which accepts info from the joystick and updates the player's movements, and a draw method which the main loop calls on displaying every frame, to show the player's new position and attitude. You might be able to do something along these lines. Mel. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
