popups-dialog-gui 0.1.1

Help module for overlays and contextual help in Pygame

popups_dialog_gui (README.md)

Description

popups_dialog_gui is a pop-up windows module built on Pygame to generate notices, dialogs, etc. It also includes more advanced capabilities intended as a foundation for extending functionality (for example, help windows). Form support, menus, etc. will be enabled soon.

Project status

A considerable amount of functionality has been implemented and complemented with documentation. Developed and tested on Linux. It may work on other systems, but it has not been verified.

Documentation

• Versión en Español de este documento
• Remaining documentation
• Full documentation on GitHub (currently private; it will be published soon)

Usage examples

In the project’s examples/ directory there is a small collection of programs that demonstrate different uses of popups_dialog_gui. A tutorial is available that helps you learn in the most appropriate order and serves as a guide to understand the concepts introduced in each example.

How to run the example programs (Quickstart)

At the root of the project there is a launcher (main.py) that shows the list of available example programs along with a brief description.

To try them on Linux you can download the launcher and the entire examples/ directory. Make sure you have installed:

• python >= 3.9
• pygame >= 2.0
• help-core-pygame >= 0.1.2 (auxiliary Pygame library by the same author)

Command to run the launcher:

python main.py

Just select one of the examples and click with the mouse to run it.