Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-31 Thread Alan Gauld
On 31/03/16 20:27, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >>> OpenGL plays nicely with Windows and Linux as well. >> >> mix n' match the OSX graphics libraries. You can't do that as easily >> in X or Windows is an add-on library, not a native part of the OS. > > That's interesting. I've used OpenGL on Windows and

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-31 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 30 March 2016 at 00:26, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 29/03/16 22:17, Oscar Benjamin wrote: >> >> On 29 Mar 2016 22:20, "Alan Gauld" > > wrote: >> >> > investigate. And of course there is OpenGL which plays very >> > well with MacOSX. >> >> OpenGL plays nicely with Wi

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-30 Thread wolfrage8...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:36 AM, john wrote: > On 03/30/2016 04:27 AM, wolfrage8...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in >>> Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for >>> something more robust. I tried using pyg

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-30 Thread john
On 03/30/2016 04:27 AM, wolfrage8...@gmail.com wrote: I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for something more robust. I tried using pygame I recommend Kivy; because then it is easy to take the app

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-30 Thread wolfrage8...@gmail.com
>I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in >Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for > something more robust. I tried using pygame I recommend Kivy; because then it is easy to take the app from computer to Phone; which opens the world of to

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Alan Gauld
On 29/03/16 22:17, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > > On 29 Mar 2016 22:20, "Alan Gauld" > wrote: > > > investigate. And of course there is OpenGL which plays very > > well with MacOSX. > > OpenGL plays nicely with Windows and Linux as well. > But not so well as MacOS X

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 29 Mar 2016 22:20, "Alan Gauld" wrote: > > PyGin and Albow are other games based frameworks you could > investigate. And of course there is OpenGL which plays very > well with MacOSX. OpenGL plays nicely with Windows and Linux as well. I think that pygame actually uses pyglet which is an OpenG

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Lisa Hasler Waters
Wonderful! Thanks Alan and Oscar. I will proceed with the various suggestions and hopefully will be successful. Thanks again so very much for all your support and help! Lisa On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 29/03/16 19:03, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote: > > > I have a few stu

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Alan Gauld
On 29/03/16 19:03, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote: > I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in > Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for something > more robust. I'm not sure what you mean by robust. Tkinter is fine for low speed/non-graphics i

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 29 Mar 2016 21:19, "Bob Gailer" wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2016 2:03 PM, "Lisa Hasler Waters" wrote: > > > > I continually get this error: > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/Users/lwaters/Desktop/pygameTest.py", line 1, in > > import pygame, sys > > File > > > "/Libr

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Lisa Hasler Waters
Thanks Bob. Using Mac, OS 10.11 El Cap Yes running Python 2.7 Installed the Pygame from: http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml 1.9.1 I could try to uninstall/re -- but I'll wait to see if anyone has other suggestions based on the new info I've provided. Thx On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob G

Re: [Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Bob Gailer
On Mar 29, 2016 2:03 PM, "Lisa Hasler Waters" wrote: > > I continually get this error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/Users/lwaters/Desktop/pygameTest.py", line 1, in > import pygame, sys > File > "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-pac

[Tutor] Best tool for programming interactive games in Python

2016-03-29 Thread Lisa Hasler Waters
Hello All, I have a few students who are interested in creating interactive games in Python. We have learned how to use tkinter but we are looking for something more robust. I tried using pygame but cannot seem to get it initialized. I continually get this error: Traceback (most recent call last