#pyghelpers (pronounced as: "pig helpers")

An open collection of classes and functions for use with pygame development.

7/23 Version 1.1

SceneMgr: Big change to startup:

The main program should now create a dictionary of sceneKey: sceneObject pairs

and get pass this in when creating the SceneMgr.

This eliminates the earlier need for each scene to have a getSceneKey() method.

(The old approach is still supported for backward compatibility)

Scene: Added addScene to add a scene dynamically (pass in a sceneKey and sceneObject)

Scene: Added removeScene to remove an existing scene to free up memory (pass in a sceneKey)

(This can be called from the current scene, as long as the next line is a gotoScene)

2/23

Timer, CountDownTimer, CountUpTimer: checks for and handle multiple pauses and resumes.

CountDownTimer: modified ended() method to check the time

Client code doesn't need to call getTime() Suggested by Lando Chan

CountUpTimer, CountDownTimer: added forceFullHHMMSS for full HH:MM:SS presentation

10/22

SceneMgr: Added optional frame rate display for debugging

4/22

Timer, CountUpTimer, CountDownTimer: Added pause() and resume()

To install, open the command line and enter the following:

python3 -m pip install -U pip --user

python3 -m pip install -U pyghelpers --user

The first command ensures that you have the latest version of pip (the installer).

The second line installs the latest version of pyghelpers from PyPI into the site-packages folder on your computer, so that this package is available to all of your Python programs.

Documentation can be found at: https://pyghelpers.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

If you have questions or are interested in making additions, please contact me:

Irv at furrypants dot com