In this day and age, touchscreen devices are everywhere.
PyGame makes it easy to create games and applications that can take advantage of touch inputs.
PyGames Touch Support
PyGame has built-in support for working with touch inputs.
This includes support for mouse and finger touch inputs.
To detect a mouse, you’re able to use thepygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWNandpygame.MOUSEBUTTONUPevents.
For example:
To detectfinger touch inputs, it’s possible for you to use thepygame.FINGERDOWNandpygame.FINGERUPevents.
Start by creating a simple game.
To do this, you will need to create a game loop and a player character.
To make the game more interesting, you canadd physics and collisionsto create obstacles for the player to overcome.
To do this, you will need to add an event handler for the mouse inputs.
Add thepygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWNandpygame.MOUSEBUTTONUPevents to the game loop.
Create an event handler for the mouse inputs.
When a player presses the mouse button, update the characters position to the current mouse position.
To do this, you will need to add an event handler for the finger-touch inputs.
Add thepygame.FINGERDOWNandpygame.FINGERUPevents to the game loop:
Notice how similar this is to the mouse input event handler.
This event handler updates the characters position when the player presses their finger on the screen.
When they release their finger, nothing happens.
This allows you to create a game that you might control using both mouse and finger touch inputs.
Keep in mind that you could also use other events such aspygame.FINGERMOTIONto respond to finger movement.
PyGame has a few built-in features that can help you add more touch features to your game.
The first feature is thepygame.mouse.set_visible()function.
This function allows you to hide the mouse cursor.
This is useful if you want to move the mouse to a specific location without using the mouse inputs.
you could use this to detect how far the mouse has moved since the last mouse event.
This can be useful when creating games with mouse/touch controls.
It supports both vertical and horizontal scrolls.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to creating games with touch inputs.
With the help of PyGame, you’re free to create games that are both fun and interactive.
So get out there and start creating!
