Example Usage

Three buttons that output messages to the console:

button1 = Button(caption="Press SPACE or click",key=K_SPACE).activate()
button2 = Button(caption="Reverse colours",fgcolour=(255,255,255),bgcolour=(0,0,0)).activate()
button3 = Button(caption="Mary...",msg="Mary had a little lamb", position=(200,100)).activate()

ce = ConsoleEchoer().activate()
button1.link( (button1,"outbox"), (ce,"inbox") )
button2.link( (button2,"outbox"), (ce,"inbox") )
button3.link( (button3,"outbox"), (ce,"inbox") )

How does it work?

The component requests a display surface from the Pygame Display service component. This is used as the surface of the button. It also binds event listeners to the service, as appropriate.

Arguments to the constructor configure the appearance and behaviour of the button component:

• If an output "msg" is not specified, the default is a tuple ("CLICK", id) where id is the self.id attribute of the component.
• A pygame keycode can be specified that will also trigger the button as if it had been clicked
• you can set the text label, colour, margin size and position of the button
• the button can have a transparent background
• you can specify a size as width,height. If specified, the margin size is ignored and the text label will be centred within the button

If a producerFinished or shutdownMicroprocess message is received on its "control" inbox. It is passed on out of its "signal" outbox and the component terminates.

Upon termination, this component does not unbind itself from the Pygame Display service. It does not deregister event handlers and does not relinquish the display surface it requested.

class Button(Axon.Component.component)

Button(...) -> new Button component.

Create a button widget in pygame, using the Pygame Display service. Sends a message out of its outbox when clicked.

Keyword arguments (all optional):

• caption -- text (default="Button <component id>")
• position -- (x,y) position of top left corner in pixels
• margin -- pixels margin between caption and button edge (default=8)
• bgcolour -- (r,g,b) fill colour (default=(224,224,224))
• fgcolour -- (r,g,b) text colour (default=(0,0,0))
• msg -- sent when clicked (default=("CLICK",self.id))
• key -- if not None, pygame keycode to trigger click (default=None)
• transparent -- draw background transparent if True (default=False)
• size -- None or (w,h) in pixels (default=None)