Hello folks, Pygame --the best little 2d game engine in Pythoina-- is great for little 2d one off games and such (or so i've heard). I really don't do much 2d graphics but pygame has some other helpful modules so i downloded it about a year or so ago although i had not used it until today. I just wanted to be ready just incase the 2d bug bit me. So recently I wanted to do some cdrom automation for one of my Tkinter scripts and thought... Hey, i finally found a good use for that old pygame module!
So with much anticipation i moseyed on over to my site-packages folder and dusted off the old pygame module and docs and i was coding away just happy as a clam. I had my initialization working well, my ejections were a breeze, and i even had some boolean testing functionality all wrapped up nicely. Boy was i on cloud nine! And just as i was finishing up the interface class with a "close" method i realized in horror... YOU CAN OPEN THE CD TRAY WITH PYGAME HOWEVER FOR SOME CRUEL AND UNJUST REASON YOU CANNOT CLOSE IT! WTF? Yes at this point i realized that without a method to close the cd tray my little module was useless. Sure i could drop into my OS functionality and close the cdtray by first setting up a device handle and calling a few underlying Windows functions however i am convinced that this basic functionality should be a part of any cdrom interface. Why would someone create such an interface and leave out such an important method? Surely this functionality must be available through the SDL API? What gives pygame developers? What gives? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
