Thank you Yann and Dillup for the references to your libraries. I will take a look at them in detail.
Yann: From a quick look, I see the you have installers for Windows and Linux but not for Mac. Will your library work on Macs? Is it just missing an installer? (I use a Mac for all my development.) Thanks again, Irv > On Feb 26, 2017, at 9:32 AM, Yann Thorimbert <yann.thorimb...@unige.ch> wrote: > > Hello Irv, > > I wrote (and now maintain) a library called ThorPy (www.thorpy.org) that > could fulfill your requirements. > On the website, I focused on the examples and turoials, so I hope it would be > easier for a new person to use the library quickly. However, I have to admit > that the library does not seem to be used by many people... > > Here is an overview of some of the widgets: > http://thorpy.org/examples/overview.html > Examples : http://thorpy.org/examples.html > Tutorials : http://thorpy.org/tutorials.html > > Cheers, > > Yann > ________________________________________ > De : owner-pygame-us...@seul.org <owner-pygame-us...@seul.org> de la part de > Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> > Envoyé : dimanche 26 février 2017 05:21 > À : pygame-users@seul.org > Objet : [pygame] PyGame user interface widgets > > I teach Python programming at two different universities. At one of my > schools, there is enough time for students to do a final project. I give > them a background in event-driven programming, give them an overview in > PyGame, and encourage them to build a small PyGame based project. > > I have just petitioned for and gotten approval to teach a new course on > Object Oriented Programing. In that course, I will again use Python and > focus on explaining OOP concepts using PyGame. (I'm really looking forward > to this.) > > However, in order to make things easy for my students, I would like to supply > them with a library (module) of easy to use user interface widgets. For > example, a simple button, text display box, text input box, checkbox, etc. I > started by giving out Al Sweigart's PygButton code to my students, and that > worked great. Then some students asked for a text display box, then a text > input box. I wound up building those myself. Along the way, I wrote > additions to Al's PygButton code (for example, adding a disabled state). > > My question is: Is there any "standard" user interface widget library that > many PyGame developers use? > > I have done quite a bit of research on this topic, and have found a few > libraries of widgets like what I'm looking for. I've found: > > - pgu > - pqGUI > - sgc > - Albow > - gooeypy > > These all seem to attempt to solve the same problem (of creating a set of > user interface widgets), but they all have different approaches. Some seem > to take over the basic event loop. And most don't seem to be current - I > haven't found any that have comments after around 2012. > > So ... is there one on this list, or one that I haven't found, that seems > current and is simple to use? Or maybe, I'll just keep expanding my own. > > Thanks, > > Irv > >
