Is there a way to create a button in either pygame or livewires?

[Lee Harr]

> Is there a way to create a button in either pygame or livewires, that is 
> able to be clicked and when clicked sends a command to restart the program?
>


You could try something like this using pygsear
(http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/)

The button can call either start() which just makes
a new Game instance in the same process, or
full_restart() which starts a new process and quits
the current one.



from pygsear import Game, Widget
from pygsear.locals import RED


class G(Game.Game):
    def initialize(self):
        print 'starting up...'

        self.button = Widget.SpriteTextButton(self.window, "Restart",
                            size=40, color=RED, padding=20)
        self.events.add(self.button.events)
        self.button.set_callback(self.restart)
        self.button.set_position((200, 100))
        self.sprites.add(self.button)

    def restart(self, ev):
        print 'restarting...'
        #start()
        full_restart()
        self.quit = True



def start():
    g = G()
    g.mainloop()


def full_restart():
    import os
    import sys
    cmd = 'python %s &' % sys.argv[0]
    os.system(cmd)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    start()