bgfx-python 1.0.1

Python wrapper for BGFX Library

BGFX Python

Python 3.6+ wrapper for the BGFX library.

Key Features • How To Use • Build CPP bindings • Using ImGUI • Examples • Logging • Credits • License

Key Features

• Uses Pyind11 and Builder to natively wrap the C++ interface. No CTypes or ugly C interfaces.
• Functions, classes and methods respect the PEP 8 notation.
• Unless specified, the GIL is released for every invocation and pointers are passed by reference. This will ensure great overall performances.
• Maintains the original documentation; use help() on a class or function to view it.
• Compiles shaders on-the-fly, so you don't have to.
• Ships with ImGui integrated in the BGFX rendering pipeline.

How To Use

Precompiled wheels

Precompiled wheels are available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. To install the latest published release, simply run:

$ pip install bgfx-python

Linux wheels are built with the help of the ManyLinux project and, unfortunately, are too large for the PyPi repository. You can download those wheels from the Bintray Repository.

Install from source

To install the latest version, you'll need to clone this repository and its submodules:

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/fbertola/bgfx-python
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Then, make sure to have make, cmake and ninja installed in your system.

Finally, simply build and install the wheel.

$ pip setup.py install

Installing on MacOS

Building on MacOS X > 10.14 requires you to also install the SDK headers:

xcode-select --install
open /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg

Installing on Windows

The easiest way is to install Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. If you have Chocolatey installed, then run:

choco install visualstudio2019community

Before building the package, make sure to activate all the environment variables required by the compiler:

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64

Build CPP bindings

bgfx-python uses Binder and Pybind11 to wrap the original library. A script to generate such binding is provided inside the scripts directory. Make sure that all the paths are corrects then simply launch the various scripts, e.g:

$ python make_bindings_bgfx.py

Building on MacOS X could be a little trickier, since system headers are in the SDK location. Make sure to also include these paths; you can check where the headers are located running this command:

g++ -E -x c++ - -v < /dev/null

Using ImGUI

Two modules are exposed:

• ImGui, which provides a standard wrapper around all the ImGui funcions and classes.
• ImGuiExtra, which provides some additional functions to integrate ImGui in the BGFX rendering pipline.

To use it in your application, simply follow this template:

# Setup the application
def init():
    ImGuiExtra.imgui_create()

# Destroy the application
def destroy():
    ImGuiExtra.imgui_destroy()

# Update the application, rendering each fram
def update():
    ImGuiExtra.imgui_begin_frame(
        mouse_x, mouse_y, buttons_states, 0, width, height
    )

    # Other ImGui drawing directives...

    ImGuiExtra.imgui_end_frame()

All ImGui API that provides user input (such as InputText, SliderFloat, etc.) modifies their arguments by reference. However, in Python, such objects as integers, floats and strings are passed always by value. Because of this, bgfx-python provides special wrappers, that allow passing those variables by reference.

For example, to use SliderFloat, you will need first to create a variable that will hold the state:

f = ImGui.Float();

You can access the value in the following way: f.value

To use it with slider_float simply pass it to that function:

ImGui.slider_float("float slider", f, 0.0, 1.0)

Logging

Loguru is used for logging inside bgfx_python. By default the logger is disabled; to enable it, use the following instructions:

from loguru import logger

logger.enable("bgfx")

Examples

You will find some examples in the examples folder, be sure to check them out. For a more advanced example, see the Natrix project.

Credits

This software uses the following open source packages:

• bgfx
• pybind11
• binder

License (BSD 2-clause)

BSD 2-Clause License

Copyright (c) 2019, Federico Bertola
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
   list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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