This post summarizes some Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) widget toolkits or libraries for the video game Python module Pygame.
List of GUIs for Pygame
GUI widget toolkits for Pygame:
- Pygame GUI
- PGU
- ThorPy
- PyGVisuals
- OcempGUI
Pygame GUI is one of the newest, as it was released in 2019.
Pygame GUI
Pygame GUI was released in 2019 and as of 2023 is currently active.
It was originally developed by British Python teacher Dan Lawrence a.k.a. MyreMylar.
It is released under a permissive MIT license.
You can find examples for Pygame GUI on this external link.
PGU
Phil’s PyGame Utilities (PGU) was released in 2005 and last changes were added in 2019, as of 2023. It was originally developed by Phil Hassey.
It is released under a weak copyleft LGPL-2.1 license.
ThorPy
ThorPy was released in 2015 and last changes were added in 2021, as of 2023.
It was originally developed by Yann Thorimbert.
It is released under a permissive MIT license.
PyGVisuals
PyGVisuals was released in 2019 and last changes were added in 2020, as of 2023.
It is developed by Impelon (Ovi T.) and kjkriegel.
IT is released under a permissive BSD-2.0 license.
OcempGUI
OcempGUI is a discontinued project. It was active from 2006 to 2008.
It was released under a BSD license.
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External References
- Pygame; “GUIs with Pygame“, Pygame
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