I am working on an RPG in pygame/python. I have made a char. creator that allows you to customize the player. Now I am looking for a way to prompt for a name on-screen. I don't want it to make a box, just print what the user is typing in a specific area (see picture). Thanks for help.
http://ubuntuone.com/3HdzOKroopUEf1YxqNnbFM <-----Picture (only looks blue through the link)
You can capture the events and if event.type == KEYDOWN, then check for event.key to get which key is the user pressing. Then you can add it to a text variable and show it on the screen.
You could also use EzText. It is a module that basically does what FRJA describes for you. There are plenty of other modules if you google "pygame text input." Here is EzText's example code:
# EzText example
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame, sys, eztext
def main():
# initialize pygame
pygame.init()
# create the screen
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,240))
# fill the screen w/ white
screen.fill((255,255,255))
# here is the magic: making the text input
# create an input with a max length of 45,
# and a red color and a prompt saying 'type here: '
txtbx = eztext.Input(maxlength=45, color=(255,0,0), prompt='type here: ')
# create the pygame clock
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
# main loop!
while 1:
# make sure the program is running at 30 fps
clock.tick(30)
# events for txtbx
events = pygame.event.get()
# process other events
for event in events:
# close it x button si pressed
if event.type == QUIT: return
# clear the screen
screen.fill((255,255,255))
# update txtbx
txtbx.update(events)
# blit txtbx on the sceen
txtbx.draw(screen)
# refresh the display
pygame.display.flip()
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
I have recently written another module that makes it even easier to insert text. You simply create a TextInput-object, then feed it with events every frame of your game and finally retreive the rendered surface using get_surface().
Here's an example program that demonstrates how to use it:
import pygame_textinput # Import the textinput-module
import pygame
pygame.init()
# Create TextInput-object
textinput = pygame_textinput.TextInput()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1000, 200))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while True:
screen.fill((225, 225, 225))
events = pygame.event.get()
for event in events:
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
exit()
# Feed it with events every frame
textinput.update(events)
# Blit its surface onto the screen
screen.blit(textinput.get_surface(), (10, 10))
pygame.display.update()
clock.tick(30)
If you want to process the user input after he pressed return, simply wait until the update()-method returns True:
if textinput.update(events):
foo()
More detailed information and the source code can be found on [my github page](my github page.
