PGU - PyGame Utilities

A collection of handy utilities and libraries created by Phil Hassey, released under the LGPL v2.1 (see LICENSE.txt for more details). This version of PGU is currently maintained by Donkyhotay.

The new PGU website:

https://github.com/Donkyhotay/pgu

Old website location:

http://code.google.com/p/pgu/
peter.rogers@gmail.com

http://www.imitationpickles.org/pgu/
philhassey@yahoo.com

Modules:

tileedit  -- edit tga based images
leveledit -- edit tga based levels in tile, isometric, and hexagonal formats
tganew    -- create tga files
levelfancy-- prettyify your levels

gui     -- gui with standard widget, dialogs, html, connections, and themes
html    -- html rendering utilities
layout  -- layout utilities
text    -- text rendering utilities

tilevid -- sprite and tile engine
isovid  -- isometric sprite and tile engine
hexvid  -- hexagonal sprite and tile engine (alpha)
engine  -- state engine
timer   -- a timer for games with set-rate FPS
high    -- high score tracking
ani     -- animation helpers
algo    -- helpful pathfinding algoritms
fonts   -- font wrappers, bitmapped fonts

Vera.ttf is from:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
see that site for more information about the font.

Documentation

To build the PGU documentation, run the build.py script found under docs:

$ cd docs
$ python build.py
$ your-favorite-browser index.html

To understand pgu.gui -- read: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ (pgu.gui is based heavily on my HTML background)

To understand the pgu.gui default theme -- read: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html (the theme uses the css 2 box model)

Example scripts can be found in the examples directory.

THANKS

• gal koren -- bugs, draft of html.HTML, suggestions, bug finding, ScrollArea widget, FileDialog, List, Console
• fdarling -- testing, suggestions, bug fixing, code cleanup, menus & slider UI fixes, new Table class, reorganization of pgu.gui into a package

richard jones -- packaging, suggestions, code cleanup jhofmann -- tiled preview in tileedit and PIL support Dr. L. Humbert -- gui.Password widget illume -- added auto-load features to tile & leveledit python -- suggestions, bug finding, bug fixing (unicode) Addison Hardy -- added ScrollArea to html5.py dangrus -- testing, suggestions piman -- testing, suggestions coca-cola -- testing tenoften -- testing