PGU (Phil's Pygame Utilities)

Overview

PGU, or Phil's Pygame Utilities, is a collection of tools and enhancements for Pygame to simplify game development. It includes modules for GUI elements, tile maps, and more.

Key Features:

• GUI Toolkit for Pygame
• Enhanced tile map support
• Various utility modules for game development
• Flexible and easy to integrate
• Simplifies common game development tasks

Common Use Cases:

• 2D game development
• Games with tile-based maps
• Projects requiring GUI elements in Pygame
• Rapid prototyping of game ideas
• Educational game development projects

Installation

# Ensure pygame is installed first
pip install pygame
# PGU may not be available on PyPI, it often requires manual installation from sources

Example

import pygame
from pgu import gui

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))

app = gui.App()

# Create the Pygame GUI app with a label widget
container = gui.Container(width=300, height=200)
label = gui.Label("Hello from PGU!", width=200, height=50)
container.add(label, 100, 50)

app.init(container)

running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
        app.event(event)

    screen.fill((50, 50, 50))
    app.paint(screen)
    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

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