Pygame:

Moving a square:

For starters, create a program in which we can move a box around the screen with the arrow keys.

• Two ways to get events:
  • polling the device
  • using sdl events

Functions:

• init: pygame.init() or pygame.*.init()

• screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)

• screen functions:

  • blit(screen, rect)
  • fill(color)

• loading & converting images: (surfaces) image = pygame.image.load('player.bmp').convert()

• Keyboard input:

event.KEYDOWN and KEYUP when key pressed. event.key indicates which key http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/key.html

for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: sys.exit() if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN: print event.key

Template for a working pygame program:

Pygame on gp2x:

• Get it from the gp2x wiki.
• extract.
• use the example to set up the environment before launching python programs.

special to gp2x:

pygame.display.set_mode((320, 240), 0, 16)

• how to get input?