Pylash Engine

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Latest Version: 1.4.1

Pylash is a game engine for python which imitates some classes and functions in flash. We develop pylash with Python3 and the GUI engine of pylash is PyQt4. Many classes which are almost from flash such as Sprite, BitmapData, Bitmap, TextField, Loader and Graphics will be found in pylash.

License: MIT License

We use MIT License, which is a free and friendly license. Besides, you must follow the license of PyQt4 as well, because pylash is based on it.

Get Pylash

With Git:

Input this command in Git Bash to clone pylash:

git clone git@github.com:yuehaowang/pylash_engine.git

Without Git:

The url to download the engine is:

https://github.com/yuehaowang/pylash_engine/archive/master.zip

Before Using Pylash

For pylash is based on Python3 and PyQt4, you need to install them first.

Python3 will be found here:

https://www.python.org/

PyQt4 will be found here:

https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro

Support

If you find the library has some bugs or that you have any questions or advice, please let us know:

My email: wangyuehao1999@gmail.com

My twitter: https://twitter.com/yuehaowang

Bugs can be submited into Github Issues too.

Demo Screenshots

• Find Character

• Get Fruits

• Tower Defense

Get Started

• Overview of Pylash
• A Simple Program: Hello World
• Load and Display An Image
• Sprite and Mouse Event
• Create Vector Graphics

Documentation

Documentation comes soon...

Changelog

version 1.4.1

Release Date: 3/13/2016

1. Added globalToLocal method in DisplayObject class to get a point's position which is relative to the global coordinate.
2. Added localToGlobal method in DisplayObject class to get a point's position which is relative to the local coordinate of display object.
3. Added Matrix class in geom module to create a matrix used for transforming coordinate.
4. Added Transform class in geom module and transform property in DisplayObject. With them, you can transform display object arbitrarily.

version 1.4.0

Release Date: 2/7/2016

1. Enhancement: you can set width&height property of DisplayObject to limit the size of display object.
2. Added Sound class in media module to play music.
3. Enhancement: using LoadManage.load, you can load music.
4. Improvement: LoadManage used to use threading.thread to create a thread, now it use QThread.

version 1.3.3

Release Date: 1/10/2016

1. Added LineEdit class in ui module to create single-line input box.
2. Added RankingSystem in system module, which connect server and send requests to add/get ranking.
3. Added RankingServer in net module, which is a socket server used with RankingSystem.
4. Bugfix: cannot use onComplete&onStart&onUpdate property in TweenLite.

version 1.3.2

Release Date: 12/26/2015

1. Added ButtonSample in ui module, which is used for creating a very simple button. Generally speaking, it's used for testing.
2. Added StageWebView in media module to show some webpages in the window.

version 1.3.1

Release Date: 11/21/2015

1. Added draw method in BitmapData to draw a display object in BitmapData object.
2. Improvement: change drawing QImage object into drawing QPixmap object to make image rendering fast.
3. Added setPixel, getPixel, setPixels, getPixels method in BitmapData for pixel processing.
4. Added lock, unlock method in BitmapData for faster pixel processing when you process pixels many times at a time.
5. Added Rectangle class and Point class.
6. Bugfix: get wrong width/height of Graphics when using moveTo method or lineTo method.
7. Enhancement: support hex value when setting color.

version 1.3.0

Release Date: 11/8/2015

1. Bugfix: some errors will be thrown when you give a LinearGradientColor/RadialGradientColor/ConicalGradientColor object to lineStyle method of Graphics class as the second parameter.
2. Added TweenLite static class and TweenLiteChild class to create some easing animations.
3. Added Easing static class to provide many easing methods for TweenLite class.
4. Improvement: more detailed internal error hints.
5. Bugfix: cannot use Button.removeState.

version 1.2.1

Release Date: 11/1/2015

1. Added Shape class to create vector graphics. It's lighter than Sprite when you just want to use vector graphics.
2. Enhancement: efficiency of mouse event.

version 1.2.0

Release Date: 10/7/2015

1. Added some sample classes about loading page.
2. Added Button class to create a simple button.
3. Added LinearGradientColor, RadialGradientColor and ConicalGradientColor class to use gradient color.
4. Added delay property in LoadManage class to set the delay time between loading a resource and loading the next resource in order to show loading page.
5. Added useAntialiasing property in stage in order to open/close antialiasing.
6. Bugfix: onComplete callback function will be called in the thread used for loading resources in LoadManage.
7. Bugfix: PyQt will throw errors if text property of TextField is set to a value whose type is not str.
8. Added mouseShelter property in DisplayObjectContainer to set whether stop propagating mouse events to DisplayObjectContainer objects that are sheltered by other objects.
9. Bugfix: selfY in mouse event is wrong.
10. Enhancement: the x and y property in parameter 'bitmapData' given into the constructor of Animation class will be the origin position of the animation.
11. Added AnimationSet class to control a set of animations.
12. Added MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT event.

version 1.1.0

Release Date: 9/20/2015

1. Improvement: changed and added some methods in Graphics.
2. Added settings of join style, cap style and miter limit in Graphics.

version 1.0.0

Release Date: 9/12/2015

Create pylash with display, text, system, utils and events modules which include Sprite, Bitmap, Graphics, Loader, Stage and more powerful classes.