If the menu is disabled, .mainloop() is a no-op. No point in rebuilding existing functionality.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 07:26 Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>
