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upsidaisium

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which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

background info: i've started making a little dice game in python. most of the guts of it are finished, so now i'd like to put a GUI on it. as a child, i knew this game as The Game of 5000. it's played very similarly to this game.

so my needs are pretty simple: i need to draw some dice (2D drawing). i don't know if i want to go to the trouble of animating the dice rolling, so i'll probably opt for something simpler; for example, a row of six dice that are sort of spinning in place until they turn up a number, very similar to how a slot machine looks.

i already know how to do basic GUI programming with pygtk and wxpython, but i think this would be an opportunity to learn something new. so does anybody have any recommendations about what library i could use to easily/elegantly/beautifully do this? should i be looking at cairo/pycairo? sdl? something else?

thanks in advance for the input.

Last edited by upsidaisium (2010-01-18 02:53:45)

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Re: which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

maybe pygame? It's definitely overkill for a dice game, but then, it's something new.

Or, do 3D dice; Soya3D is always fun.

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upsidaisium

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Re: which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

pygame certainly looks like a possibility. might as well play around with it a bit and see what happens

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Jamp

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Re: which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

Maybe try tkinter and canvas class, it is simple and bundled with python

tomd123

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Re: which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

Maybe try tkinter and canvas class, it is simple and bundled with python

If you think those are simple, wait till you try pygame

Jamp

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Re: which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

I've used both (pygame more), and tkinter has some nice design in it, pygame is much more like c binding, and it's a bit inconsistent (just IMHO).

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Re: which graphics / drawing library..? (python)

pyglet is another alternative.

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