yamlui is a Python library which provides a number of UI widgets for pygame. It also allows interfaces made of these widgets to be defined in YAML files rather than in code, reducing the amount of time that needs to be spent writing UI boilerplate and allowing focus on the functionality behind the UI.

Extensibility

In addition to providing a basic set of widgets including textboxes, containers, buttons, and labels, yamlui is easy to extend with your own custom widgets. These can be based on existing widgets by subclassing them, or entirely custom so long as they provide the same API. The extensibility is done simply by adding to a dictionary before calling the UI generation function.

yamlui.class_mapping.update({
    'viewport': MyViewport
})

This example adds a viewport widget which is represented by the MyViewport class.

Callbacks

The defined UI can be dynamically changed and respond to user input through the use of various callbacks and data bindings. For example, a label can define content-bind, which will cause the content of the label to be the result of calling the specified function.

- object: label
  style: ['label']
  properties:
    name: starting-villagers
    text: '0'
    width: 25
    position: [170, 180]
    content-bind: villager_count

And the accompanying code,

def villager_count(event=None, widget=None, **kwargs):
    return str(len(villagers))

yamlui.callbacks.update({
  'villager_count': villager_count
})

As with adding new widgets, this needs to be done before actually generating the UI.