I programmed a board game in pygame, which is cool and all but I’d like to put it in a tkinter window so that I have space above my game, in which I can put buttons for resetting the board, etc.
How do I embed this? I would like to only have a tkinter window and not a seperate pygame window.
I made a window using
win = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT)
pygame.display.set_caption('Game')
And then I displayed it using a while loop with
pygame.display.update()
I genuinely don’t know how to make a tkinter that embeds this.
I tried using this solution, however when I ran this program I got two windows, which isn’t what I want
>Solution :
This is complicated.
Both toolkits have their own windowing subsystems.
I remember once coming across a way to have Pygame’s SDL render into a canvas in another window – but I can’t now recall if that was X11 (~Linux) specific.
You will jabe to either have your buttons and controls rendered by Pygame – in that case there are complementary libraries such as Phil’s Pygame Utilities ("PGU" – I have republished a version of it for Python3 https://pypi.org/project/pygame-pgu/ ) or another similar library.
Another option is to have your game application use 2 independent, related windows – in this case, running tkinter in a separate thread should be enough to have both working – or calling the .update() method on the root tkinter object in the pygame mainloop should suffice.