Internet woes. Can’t connect to the wifi here for some reason so I’m having to use my phone to look up docs. Not the first time I had this problem with this laptop, oof. I should download at least Python and Pygame docs locally. Or fix the connection issue. I might have a USB wifi adapter I could easily try out.
Looks like using TypedDict for my Parameters class has some limitations. I can’t add any other methods to that class. I was hoping to have some utility functions for getting all the values that begin with a certain string or, convert tuples to pygame.Vector2.
I’m’a have a lot of variables and the names got long really quickly.
For example:
parameters['root_segment_pos_linear_term_factor']
parameters['root_segment_pos_linear_term_offset']
parameters['root_segment_pos_constant_term_offset']
It would be nice to be able to do something like this:
p = parameters.namespace('root_segment_pos')
p['linear_term_factor']
p['linear_term_offset']
p['constant_term_offset']
So do I wrap the dict or do I just have some utility functions that live beside it? If I wrap it, I’ll surely lose the key autocomplete. I could also create new classes extending TypedDict to represent the groups of parameters that are related. That would restrict me to groupings I included at creation time, I can’t choose my groups as I need them but… I’m probably creating both at once anyway. Seems like it’d be a lot of extra code, though.
Could go a different route entirely:
prefix = 'root_segment_pos_'
parameters[f"{prefix}linear_term_factor']
parameters[f"{prefix}linear_term_offset']
parameters[f"{prefix}constant_term_offset']
Bit ugly but it takes zero effort.
If I do a helper function:
p = subdict(parameters, 'root_segment_pos')
p['linear_term_factor']
p['linear_term_offset']
p['constant_term_offset']
Ended up with subdict(). It’s pretty straightforward and cleans things up nicely.
Now, to figure out how to place a bunch of sliders and labels and have them update their corresponding parameters.