Kamaelia.UI.PygameDisplay.PygameDisplay

class PygameDisplay(Axon.AdaptiveCommsComponent.AdaptiveCommsComponent)

PygameDisplay(...) -> new PygameDisplay component

Use PygameDisplay.getDisplayService(...) in preference as it returns an existing instance, or automatically creates a new one.

Or create your own and register it with setDisplayService(...)

Keyword arguments (all optional): - width -- pixels width (default=800) - height -- pixels height (default=600) - background_colour -- (r,g,b) background colour (default=(255,255,255)) - fullscreen -- set to True to start up fullscreen, not windowed (default=False)

Inboxes

• control : NOT USED
• inbox : Default inbox, not currently used
• notify : Receive requests for surfaces, overlays and events

Outboxes

• outbox : NOT USED
• signal : NOT USED

Methods defined here

__init__(self)

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature

handleDisplayRequest(self)

Check "notify" inbox for requests for surfaces, events and overlays and process them.

main(self)

Main loop.

surfacePosition(self, surface)

Returns a suggested position for a surface. No guarantees its any good!

updateDisplay(self, display)

Render all surfaces and overlays onto the specified display surface.

Also dispatches events to event handlers.

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