What gui toolkit should I use with Pygame?

Question

I'm making a game that needs to be able to pop up gui elements within a pygame surface. This question isn't what I want because wxPython goes around the SDL surface, not inside it. So far I've only seen ocemp, pgu, and GooeyPy in this problem space.

• Ocemp is huge and crufty looking. It mentions Python 2.3 and the newest file I found in a quick browse of the cvs repo was 2 years old.
• I couldn't get GooeyPy to work (though I didn't try very hard; eggs and Debian are not friends) and v0.2 was last updated in February of 2009.
• I've been working with pgu, but it appears to be unmaintained (last update 11/2009 and original maintainer abandoned it) and it's starting to show its age. It uses old style classes and throws string exceptions.

So my question to you, SO, is this: What gui toolkit should I use for making pretty clickable buttons pop up in your pygame applications? Are there any in active development?

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any pygame gui stuff, but it shouldn't be terribly hard to roll your own (and hey, maybe make it open source!)

If you're just doing a few simple buttons you could use GIMP or Photoshop or something else to make two (or three) images - an up, down and possible hover button, then you'd write your own event loop/handler that would do something like this:

1. Get the mouse position
2. Is the mouse over any of the buttons (and no buttons are pressed)?
3. Display hover image
4. Is the mouse over a button and a mouse button is clicked?
5. Fire event associated with that button
6. See 1

That's a bit simplified, but it should at least give you a starting point (if no one else has any pygame GUI libraries)

Answer 2

Given that nobody's come up with any alternatives, I'm going with PGU and updating it as I go. I'm just writing this as an update for future pygame/gui seekers. If things work out, I'll submit my updates to pgu's current maintainer.