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* Allows Sugar toolbars and other widgets to be added to the activity UI
 
* Allows Sugar toolbars and other widgets to be added to the activity UI
 
* Provides hooks for saving to and restoring from the Journal
 
* Provides hooks for saving to and restoring from the Journal
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==== Differences between Sugargame and olpcgames ====
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The olpcgames framework provides a wrapper around Pygame which attempts to
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allow a Pygame program to run mostly unmodified under Sugar.  To this end,
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the Pygame program is run in a separate thread with its own Pygame message
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loop while the main thread runs the GTK message loop.  Also, olpcgames wraps
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Sugar APIs such as the journal and mesh into a Pygame-like API.
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Sugargame takes a simpler approach; it provides a way to embed Pygame into a
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GTK widget.  The Sugar APIs are used to interact with Sugar, the Pygame APIs
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are used for the game. 
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Sugargame advantages:
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* Simpler code
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* More elegant interface between Pygame and GTK
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* Runs as a single thread: no thread related segfaults
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* Possible to use Sugar widgets with Pygame
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Sugargame limitations:
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* No support for Pango or SVG sprites (yet)
      
== Using Sugargame ==
 
== Using Sugargame ==
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the One Laptop per Child project.
 
the One Laptop per Child project.
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=== Changelog ===
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== Changelog ==
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====v1.1====
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===v1.1===
 
* Fix bugs in event handling.  (Pablo Moleri)
 
* Fix bugs in event handling.  (Pablo Moleri)
 
* Remove reference to gtk.Socket.get_window() method, which is missing in older versions of PyGTK.
 
* Remove reference to gtk.Socket.get_window() method, which is missing in older versions of PyGTK.
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====v1.0====
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===v1.0===
 
* Initial version of Sugargame
 
* Initial version of Sugargame
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== Differences between Sugargame and olpcgames ==
 +
 +
The olpcgames framework provides a wrapper around Pygame which attempts to
 +
allow a Pygame program to run mostly unmodified under Sugar.  To this end,
 +
the Pygame program is run in a separate thread with its own Pygame message
 +
loop while the main thread runs the GTK message loop.  Also, olpcgames wraps
 +
Sugar APIs such as the journal and mesh into a Pygame-like API.
 +
 +
Sugargame takes a simpler approach; it provides a way to embed Pygame into a
 +
GTK widget.  The Sugar APIs are used to interact with Sugar, the Pygame APIs
 +
are used for the game. 
 +
 +
Sugargame advantages:
 +
 +
* Simpler code
 +
* More elegant interface between Pygame and GTK
 +
* Runs as a single thread: no thread related segfaults
 +
* Possible to use Sugar widgets with Pygame
 +
 +
Sugargame limitations:
 +
 +
* No support for Pango or SVG sprites (yet)

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