An extension to Pygame I made to have full control of the code, and to converge all the frustration only to myself

Container

A general container, which should be the first thing to be initialized. It controls all the actions regarding all graphical objects, including variable sorting and drawing.

It takes a pygame.display object as a variable in order to be initialized; this display will be the one on which everything will be displayed.

One of the first things in your code, after the import actions, should be

import fpa.main as fpa

container = fpa.Container(pygame.display.set_mode((800,600),pygame.RESIZABLE))

In this way, every GraphicalObject created will be added to container.object_dict, with a tag of the GraphicalObject's name pointing at the object itself.

It can be later refered to using GraphicalBase.container.object_dict

Pointers

Pointers are REALLY important in order to use dyanmic variables. Here's how they work

• First of all, they are linked to an Updatable object through updatable.upInit(), which takes as argument a dictionary of variable-pointers, like this: {"x":IntPointer(5),"y":IntPointer(6)}; upInit() correctly indexes the variables, moving them to updatable.pointedVarDict; this is needed in order to remove the None pointers in order to save on performance.
• Then, when updatable.initPointers() is run (which should be just after upInit()), every Pointer runs its pointer.initialize(Updatable) method, with the updatable instance as argument
• When an updatable instance calls its beginUpdate() function, every pointer for that instance runs its getValue() function in order to correctly set its value for the corresponding variable (all correspondances are determined by the updatable.pointedVarDict)