[Sugar-devel] SugarGames, GTK3 and fonts ?

[laurent bernabe]

Thanks,

so I'll go on using sugar games.
I'll apply your patch right now :)

Regards.


2013/9/25 Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alanjas at hotmail.com>

> SugarGames is a "bit" deprecated but works. There are a lot of activities
> that uses it.
> In my case, all my activities (except one) uses SugarGames library.
>
> To do a toolbar, only add a few lines in activity.py like the patch
> attached.
> I test on sugar-build and works good!
>
> You can use PyGame directly, but when activity loads, it open another
> window and
> you not have the sugar toolbars.
>
> And yes.. Pygame is the better python game library!
>
> Regards!
>
> Alan
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:23:07 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarGames, GTK3 and fonts ?
> From: laurent.bernabe at gmail.com
> To: alanjas at hotmail.com
> CC: gonzalo at laptop.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
> I've applied the patch : but, as Gonzalo Odiard made me notice, perhaps
> I'd better not rely on deprecated sugargame library any more : right ?
> So I think I have to use plain gtk3 fonts and canvas (is there one ? I did
> not find any note on the official python GTK3 tutorial :
> http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/), and also make
> an activity class for the integration with the olpc (toolbar).
>
> Or can I use Pygames without the sugargame layer ? Because PyGame make
> animations coding easier : I remember that in GTK2 I had some pains for
> using threads : because in PyGTK2 there was a kind of restriction (though I
> can't remember which) with threads coding.
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2013/9/25 laurent bernabe <laurent.bernabe at gmail.com>
>
> Thank you very much : I'll apply those changes today.
>
>
> 2013/9/25 Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alanjas at hotmail.com>
>
> Copy the patch to your GIT folder and do:
>
> git apply 0001-....
>
> After, if you like the changes, can commit them.
>
> In Pygame, when you do:
>
> font = pygame.font.Font(None, 30)
>
> It selects the default font of the system (I don't know the name).
>
> If you want to see all fonts:
>
> all_fonts = pygame.font.get_fonts()
>
> Or load a specific font:
>
> font = pygame.font.Font("path/to/the/font/my_font.ttf", 30)
>
> Regards!
>
> Alan
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:32:27 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarGames, GTK3 and fonts ?
> From: laurent.bernabe at gmail.com
> To: alanjas at hotmail.com
> CC: gonzalo at laptop.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
> Thanks for your patch Alan : how must I apply them ? (I have not used
> patch before).
>
> Yes, I am very happy that you purpose me to develop the GTK2 version :)
> I have tried to do my best to code in respect with pep8 (using autopep8
> program) and pyflakes.
>
> What are the default fonts in Sugar ? (Sorry, I did not look for standards)
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2013/9/24 Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alanjas at hotmail.com>
>
> I have this patchs for you.
> One to evite track .pyc and other extensions that no have sense add to git.
>
> The second, it's a few of changes for that you code works with Sugargames
> library.
> You must make another few of changes. I use the default font, for example.
>
> If you want, you can do the GTK3 version and I translate to GTK2 :-)
>
> Regards!
>
> Alan
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:56:31 -0300
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarGames, GTK3 and fonts ?
> From: gonzalo at laptop.org
> To: laurent.bernabe at gmail.com
> CC: alanjas at hotmail.com; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
> No problem.
> In fact, tusmath is a c game, and that is a problem,
> because is not multiplatform.
> Go ahead, but look at it to see what they do.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:49 PM, laurent bernabe <
> laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oups sorry
>
> I did not notice that there was a similar game.
>
> In fact, I am lacking ideas.
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2013/9/24 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>
> If you add a mode similar to tuxmath,
> may be we can kill that game finally......
>
> While the pedagogy of tuxmath is not the best,
> every deployment ask for it
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:37 PM, laurent bernabe <
> laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you.
>
> So I think I'll try to develop for both GTK2 and GTK3.
>
>  It's a game, and I have nearly finished it for OLPC 0.100 :
> https://git.sugarlabs.org/hittheballs/hittheballs
>
> It's a very simple game where balls with operations goes across a screen
> area, and user must choose good one(s).
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2013/9/24 Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alanjas at hotmail.com>
>
> My case:
>
> - I use Ubuntu with sugar-emulator 0.96 to test GTK2 activities. Only with
> a link of my GIT folder
> to ~/Activities and I'm ready to test it!
>
> - For latest: I download the sugar-build and works. But in certain moment,
> it begin with a grade of complex
> that I don't like. Now with the broot system, it's a bit complicated. But
> "is what you get".
>
> To make a GTK2 and GTK3 activity you need make 2 codes, and maybe, two
> different
> activities. There are ways in python to check wich version of gtk you have
> in the system
> and run a gtk2 or gtk3 activity. But that needs extra work to update both
> "branchs".
>
> >So what do you advice me ? (developping in GTK2, GTK3, and/or web
> activity)
>
> I don't know wich type of activity you want to do. It's a game?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:21:17 +0200
> From: laurent.bernabe at gmail.com
> To: alanjas at hotmail.com
> CC: gonzalo at laptop.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarGames, GTK3 and fonts ?
>
> Hello
>
> In fact I am developping against GTK3 because I have the latest
> sugar-build, which holds the 0.100 version.
>
> Otherwise, I can download the 0.94 or some versions under in SugarOnAStick
> format, or in a VirtualBox format : but this way I have difficulties for
> transferring easily the project from my host system to the guest sugar one.
> I tried, in VirtualBox, to use the guest additions in order to share a
> folder between the host and guest systems (some years ago), but I did not
> manage.
>
> Also, I don't know how to develop the application so that it supports both
> gtk2 and gtk3.
>
> And I was also planning to port the activity to a web acitvity, instead of
> a gtk one, but it may not be available to many OLPC that way. And I don't
> know where to start.
>
> So what do you advice me ? (developping in GTK2, GTK3, and/or web activity)
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
> 2013/9/24 Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn <alanjas at hotmail.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> You only will make a GTK3 version?
> The latest sugar (0.100) is not used in any deployment:
> in all countries we have Sugar 0.94 or less.
>
> Would be good have a GTK2 version of that activity.
>
> Regards!
>
> Alan
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:45:13 +0200
> From: laurent.bernabe at gmail.com
> To: gonzalo at laptop.org
> CC: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarGames, GTK3 and fonts ?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> I'll try with Python/Cairo/Gtk3.
>
>
> 2013/9/24 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
>
> If you are not porting a existing olpcgames application,
> I suggest you use something else.
> You can use any of the html5 frameworks, or plain python/cairo stuff.
> sugargames de not have to much development,
> and pygame/gtk do not work really well together.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:16 AM, laurent bernabe <
> laurent.bernabe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> As I am developping my game HitTheBalls for sugar 0.100 (I have, I think,
> the latest sugar-build), I am planning to switch it from OLPCGames 1.6 to
> sugargames.
>
> But the sugargames tells that pango font is not supported. So, what is the
> best way to get started with fonts in SugarGames ? Do you have some links ?
> I searched over the web, and I found tutorials for Gtk3 and PangoCairo, but
> I don't know if these can work with SugarGames.
>
> Regards
>
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