I am attempting to build a GUI for a project at work; one requirement of this GUI is that it must give fields for the user to scan-in important data that is contained in barcodes. I am capturing the result of each Field and storing that in a Global variable, to be saved into a CSV later.
As PyGame 1.9.3 doesn't appear to have a built-in Text Field module, I have tried using both presently-available third-party systems; "EzText" and "Text_Input". However, I've had issues with installing both of these on my machine (I am running Windows 7 SP1, 64-bit).
Here's the rundown of that, for context: After performing installations of PyVisa(1), PyGame(2), Git(3) 32-bit, and cx_Freeze(4), I attempted to do a pip-install of both Eztext and Text_Input, as neither Ez nor TI's GitHub(a(5),b(6)) or Pygame(a(7),b(8)) pages had special instructions for installation otherwise. The instructions for doing this I took from here(9), here(10), and here(11). python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/ffavela/eztext.git#egg=eztext python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Nearoo/pygame-text-input#egg=pygame-text-input
The resulting output of both attempts was about the same (accounting for difference in Github address and module name): Pip error 1 (12) Pip error 2 (13)
I have since been attempting to do an of the or the files, wherein the Class functions I am seeking are built. To do this, I have followed the Checked answer for How to import a module given the full path?.
import time
import sys
import visa # Used for commands later in the GUI.
import os
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame
#import eztext
import imp
foo = imp.load_source('module.eztext','C:/Python27/src/eztext/eztext.py')
foo.Input()
pygame.init()
#... Later on in the code; skipping source commentary and version history
# Declare Global Variables
global serialnum
serialnum = "default" # Init value
#... skip to creation of PyGame object.
gameDisplay = pygame.display.set_mode(1000,750)
#... Later on in the code; the instance of using the function from <eztext.py>
def PopupOne():
intro = True
#... Skip error-trapping segment.
global serialnum
serialnumField = eztext.Input(maxlength=45,color=(255,0,0),prompt='Serial#:')
# Capture Events for this Field.
events = pygame.event.get()
serialnum = serialnumField.update(events)
# Draw and position the Field [indicates preference of Eztext over Text_Input, due to built-in functions]
serialnumField.set_pos(150,200)
serialnumField.draw(gameDisplay)
#... skip ahead to the end of the Method
pygame.display.update()
# End of <PopupOne()>
Now, for the issues that I see on Run---this is the output from IDLE (slight alterations to filepath of for anonymity):
Warning (from warnings module):
File "C:/Python27/src/eztext/eztext.py", line 2
from pygame.locals import *
RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'module' not found while handling absolute import
Warning (from warnings module):
File "C:/Python27/src/eztext/eztext.py", line 3
import pygame, string
RuntimeWarning: Parent module 'module' not found while handling absolute import
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Z:\******\Programming\PyGame\pg_sys_master2.py", line 22, in <module>
foo.Input()
File "C:/Python27/src/eztext/eztext.py", line 25, in __init__
['maxlength', '-1'], ['prompt', '\'\''],['focus','False'])
File "C:/Python27/src/eztext/eztext.py", line 13, in __init__
else: exec('self.'+key[0]+' = '+key[1])
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
error: font not initialized
>>>
My query: Has Python 2.7.13 changed to the point where the approach mentioned in 67631, linked above, is no longer valid? Am I limited to copy-paste the contents of into my Main file?
