Re: [Pysdl-devel] pySDL gui?

[Pete S. <pe...@sh...>]

> I'd like to poll the list regarding the direction we should take for
> integrating a gui with pySDL. I can see a few options:

i've come to looking at this from time to time. currently, it seems
all the SDL GUI's have moved to C++. to me this makes them a bit
less desirable.
i've seen the Qt announcement as well, and it could provide an
interesting path, but i'm afraid for the win32 bindings, since
Qt for windows is commercial only.

i've written several "image-based-guis" in C/C++ before, and i
think it wouldn't be too far out there to try to do our own
python versions. as i see it, the widgets would be extremely
simple, (ie, a button widget would take several surfaces
representing the various states (rest,hover,push,disable)
and either call an overriden method for that widget or
potentially send a custom user SDL event message.

i wouldn't be afraid of trying to create our own. it's true
that there are several SDL libraries out there, but like you
mentioned, they aren't quite complete themselves, and the
C++ makes wrapping a little more work (plus we end up locked
down to a C++ style)
as i've done a couple UI things before, the two hardest
widgets will be a text entering field and a scrolling list
box. other than that, most game UI's just need pushbuttons,
checkboxes and a menu-type control

to me, the most important thing would be for the program
to have a lot of control over the UI. some of the SDL UI
lib's i've looked seem to want complete control over the 
SDL queue and screen surface. i'd be looking for something
completely opposite.

well, i'm off to bed for now, but i'm sure discussion will
follow