Open Lewiscowles1986 opened 1 month ago
Hi @Lewiscowles1986 , thank you for your contribution. I also agree that we can find better ways for the pet to move around the taskbar, there isn't a lot of sophisticated behaviorism implemented into this project. Maybe, just maybe, you could contribute to this project also?
Happy to contribute the bug fix. The OSX fix isn't done, as the display is still not rendering when the label and window are transparent.
It's also possible for us to use another framework that's more compatible for both windows and macos?
So I don't know that a framework is needed at all, or that it's not specific to the libraries built by homebrew, that cause this issue.
I have not seen a single tk pet that works with my OSX out of the box. I Own several macs. None of them work.
I Do have a Qt one that works, but it feels a bit heavyweight a lift.
do you have any other suggestions around tooling or tech?
I'll take a look today!
I Just did, but it doesn't seem to solve much. Why, and how did you think these would help?
I wasn't sure whether the issue was with running the application, or whether the issue lies in the way these frameworks display elements on the desktop screen. I was thinking this would help.
Ah, it's a bug in Tk (which is not in QT). I Spent some time with pyobjc today, seeing if I can make a native example and define a thin API. Not much luck yet.
Hey 👋 this is very cool
Intended platform
It looks like it is Windows platform specific for a python bundled with tkinter. Might be a good idea to share with folks how you set that up. Just-in-case.
In my case; I'm on a mac; which doesn't bundle tkinter by default.
Using TKinter (mac instructions)
Homebrew
If folks are using homebrew, they can
brew install python-tk
; but some of the options are OS specific... Kinda defeating the purpose of a cross-platform library for GUI; but that is TK, not your project specific.pyenv
For folks using pyenv (I happen to use homebrew and pyenv); an additional step; as well as running or doing something to install libtk and libtcl; is to ensure your python build supports dynamic libraries.
env PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-shared" pyenv install 3.11.8
.There are more comprehensive guides which also cover linux; but I've only so-far tested with OSX
Bug?
I noticed, sometimes the creature would go left, right, left, or right, left, right. I narrowed this down to being at, the window border. Rather than call
self.change_direction()
, which involvesrandom
; I useself.dir = -self.dir
, which simply put, reverses the direction.Thanks for sharing this code. Hope some of this helps.
Update: Todo