ALBOW

A Little Bit of Widgetry for PyGame

This is a widget set for creating a GUI using PyGame. It has been developed over the course of several PyWeek game competition entries. I am documenting and releasing it as a separate package so that others may benefit from it, and so that it will be permissible for use in future PyGame entries.

Features include:

The usual complement of basic controls for use in modal and non-modal dialogs, such as labels, buttons, text fields, check boxes and radio buttons. Fields can also be used to edit other data types such as integers and floats. Buttons can be based on either text or images.
Layout widgets for arranging your controls in rows, columns and grids.
File navigation dialogs for finding files and getting pathnames for new files.
Resource management functions for finding and cacheing images, sounds, cursors and other resource types.
GridView and PaletteView widgets make it easy to create tool palettes and other such things based on an array of cells, with optional scrolling.
TableView widget for flexible display of scrollable tabular data.
Menus and menu bars.
Playing lists of music files sequentially or randomly.
Can be used with OpenGL.

Albow is designed around a model-view architecture that makes it easy to keep your GUI in sync with the state of your data. Most Albow widgets are highly customizable, so you can easily create your own versions with special appearance or behaviour. A theme system provides a central place to customize colours and fonts on an application-wide basis, so you can easily give your game's GUI a unique look.

Humerus

Also available here is Humerus, a framework for creating games that consist of a sequence of levels, with support for an optional built-in level editor.

Download

Python 2

Albow-2.2.0.zip (302,128 bytes, last updated 21 April 2013)
Humerus-2.1.0.zip (232,592 bytes, last updated 2 October 2009)

Python 3

Albow-3.1.0.zip

Documentation

You can browse the Albow and Humerus documentation online here.

Change Log

CHANGES.txt

Screenshots

A screen from Assembly Line. The labels along the top are the tabs of a TabPanel. The "Products in Stock" are displayed using a TableView, with two Buttons at the bottom. The Post-It-note-style tabs are also created using a customized TabPanel. Click for full-size image.

Modal dialogs using Labels, Buttons, IntFields and a CheckBox. The controls are laid out using Row and Grid widgets.

A tool palette created using a PaletteView.

Dialog for requesting a new file name.

Another dialog box, incorporating some custom controls.

Old Releases

Albow

Humerus-1.0.zip (51,037 bytes, last updated 25 September 2007)