A beginning. Delicious.

So this post on the minecraft forums got me itching to code again, and Andrew Nare's blog seemed like a fun thing to do, so here's my take on things.

First, though, a little on me. I've been self-teaching myself, (as opposed to self-teaching Buddha), Python for just over a year now, I'd say, (preceded by a little VB.NET, ugh). I've decided that working up a portfolio would be a good idea, so today, I'm starting small.

After wrestling with GTK+ for about half an hour, I decided to give up on it, and use PyGame for the visual bits. Makes more sense anyway, I suppose; I believe it's easier to find the mouse, etc.

Sadly, my notes on what I should do are somewhat... Lacking.

import pygame
import Image as img

#img.open()
#img.crop((l,u,r,d))

#pygame 2 bits; upper = image, full size scrollable, middleclick+drag for
# movement, lower = instructions.

#type path, list of files, strip any not images

#click top-left, grab co-ords, click bottom-right, grab co-ords

#gogogogogo


Still, better than nothing, I suppose, so, first thing I'll do, is figure out how to make a simple window, with an entrybox on it, where the user can specify the path. Then some simple ifexists, etc.

-LATER-

Ok, so, played with PyGame for a bit, and did all the flippy goodness, etc., and didn't realise the default background colour for my screen was (0,0,0), and predictably, I rendered my text in black; so I dunno if it worked or not.

On the other hand, I got my head around events, so that was nice.

-LATER-

Ooh, interesting, when you backspace a character, it doesn't clear it visually, so if you type something, backspace it, type something else, backspace that, rinse repeat, it gets wery messy. Same sort of thing happens with anti-aliasing, (so characters get very chubby.) Fixed both with liberal application of surface.fill()

More to come.