Search icon
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python

You're reading from  Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783281596
Pages 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Roberto Ulloa Roberto Ulloa
Profile icon Roberto Ulloa

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. GUI Basics – Building an Interface 2. Graphics – The Canvas 3. Widget Events – Binding Actions 4. Improving the User Experience 5. Invaders Revenge – An Interactive Multitouch Game Index

Basic widget events – dragging the stickman


Basic Widget events correspond to touches on the screen. However, the concept of touch in Kivy is broader than might be intuitively assumed. It includes mouse events, finger touches, and magic pen touches. For the sake of simplicity, we will often assume in this chapter that we are using a mouse but it doesn't matter if we were using a touch screen (and the finger or magic pen instead). The following are the three basic Widget events:

  • on_touch_down: When a new touch starts. For example, the action of pressing a button of the mouse or touching the screen.

  • on_touch_move: When the touch is moved. For example, dragging the mouse or slide the finger over the screen.

  • on_touch_up: When the touch ends. For example, releasing the mouse button or lift a finger from the screen.

Notice that an on_touch_down takes place each time before an on_touch_move and on_touch_up happens the bullet list also reflects the necessary execution order. Finally, on_touch_move...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €14.99/month. Cancel anytime}