Game Development in Python 3 With PyGame - 11 - Buttons p. 1

Key Takeaways

hey guys what is going on welcome to another P game tutorial video in this video we're going to be talking about how we can create buttons in py game so there's no real way built into P game for us to like just easily make buttons but we can make our own way using other things that are built into P game so you can use these sorts of things that I'm about to show you to do all all kinds of things it just so happens that button is one of the things that we can combine all these tools together to use but you can use the tools that I'm about to show you through this little kind of minseries of buttons to do a lot of really cool stuff with pi games so anyway let's go ahead and get started so the way I Envision it is we're going to have this intro screen you've got a bit racy and then we'll have like a button here and it says play and then when we click it it'll play the game and then a button over here that says quit and when we quit click it it will quit I can't speak quit the game um so that's what we're going to cover now so first of all um we want a red button and a green button so we already have red defined but we need to Define green so we'll just say green equals um 0 200 and z and so we've defined green and then now we're going to come down to our game intro which will be right here and basically right before the game display. update is where we're going to add some new code so the starting point of our button are just going to be rectangles right we just need a couple rectangles and that will be a starting point for a button then we add some text then we add some interactiveness and then functionality when clicked so the first step to this process is just having some rectangles so that's easy enough so we can have py game. draw. where do we want to draw them to the game display um what color do we want this rectangle to be we'll say green um and then the information on the button so the top left um X and Y so we'll do um we'll do 150 550 and then 150 and then and let's go ahead and save and run that and see see where that is okay uh see Let's do let's try 450 instead that's better so we've got this button here and then we would want to add another button here so let's close out of this and let's just copy this copy and paste and now we want this button to be red and and instead of being uh an X of 150 we we'll make this x 550 and now we've got our two rectangles obviously they're absolutely useless they're just Blobs of color but as you'll find and as I've tried to kind of point out as we've go gone through these series a lot of things not only in games but just in programming in general there more Al like illusions of things so guies in general or graphical user interfaces are not really inherent to computers but they're inherent to humans like the users we like to see something that's interactive we we'd rather use a guey than a text based module that's why people have like desktops with icons and they don't just use a command line for the most part obviously if you're like you know a system administrator or something you're you use probably you know bash a lot or something like that but but for most people they find it far more intuitive to use goys but with um with computers that that it's just not the way it works like when I click on this the computer isn't like oh he is clicking in a green box but we think that you know in a button for example and you'll see um anybody who uses our our game and and sees our button and stuff it will feel very very natural to them but at the end of the day it's just um like an illusion of a button but it's not really a button at all you know there is no spoon so so anyway um so yeah so right now it's just a rectangle but um we'll see soon how we can convert that rectangle into a simple enough button so uh we're going to be covering that in the next video so stay tuned for that as always thanks for watching thanks for all the support and subscriptions and until next time