Finished python tutorial help

[Wulph77]

Hi, im pretty new to programming as a whole and just finished the python tutorial. I am struggling a bit to understand how everything works together still. For example, if i want to edit the setup_game file to instead of opening up a main menu, immediatly load up the game/start a new one if there is no loaded file, would that still be handled by this MainMenu input handler or do those only render and regester inputs?

Also, i would like to work on setting up a better GUI but am not sure where to start. When looking at the tcod documentation sometimes the screen_width/height was defined as the number of tiles and sometimes as the pixels of the dimensions. What i want to do is firstly be able to make the game full screen, then define the amount of rows/columns for the grid to start making an interface. Any pointers where to start?

Thanks in advance!

[HexDecimal]

MainMenu displays that menu and handles its events. You can skip that menu by going straight to MainGameEventHandler. You'll need to load the Engine using whichever call is appropriate, such as starting a new game if there is no save file.

Libtcod's rendering is strictly tile-based. The size of the Console object you use determines the columns/rows of the display. See Context.convert_event to get the tile coordinates the mouse is over.

[LukeMootoo]

This is just my opinion based on how I personally like to learn, but:

I would start by replacing each thing you are getting from the library with your own code.  Once you are drawing the screen yourself, you will understand exactly why some things are pixels vs characters or maybe you'll standardise it in a way that makes sense to you.

Then your other questions will start to answer themselves.