Re: [pygame] font/text in pygame

["D. Hartley" <denise.hartley@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,

I cannot thank you enough.  That was exactly what I needed.  I now
have a working sample (just a box with a displayed high score list,
not in my program yet but at least it's working!) - and it was in
language I could actually understand.  My only question remains
regarding the "x"  - it sets where the string begins (the left side of
it), and since I have a series of strings of different lengths, I'd
like to center them - how can i do this within the framework you
provided?

Thank you!

~Denise

On 4/26/05, James Reeves <jreeves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 Apr 2005 12:26 am, D. Hartley wrote:
> > What I am trying to find out is how (if possible) to get my text high
> > score list (a list of tuples with names and scores) to something I can
> > render on the game screen. I have images that are constant, which are
> > rendered as pre-made gifs (or whatever), such as a fixed "Game Over"
> > message, and so on.  But I cannot figure out how to get a dynamically
> > changing object like my high score list to be rendered onto the game
> > screen.
> 
> It's a bit tricky to wrap your head around it at first, so I'll give you some
> examples:
> 
> # create a font object with the default typeface and 36 pixels (or is it
> # points) tall.
> font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36)
> 
> # create a new surface with white, anti-aliased text on it:
> text = font.render("Hello world", 1, (255, 255, 255, 0))
> 
> # the 'text' object is just a surface with text on. You could get exactly the
> # same result by creating an image with text on in your favourite graphics
> # software, and then using pygame.image.load. The difference is, this text is
> # created on the fly
> 
> # blit the text surface to the screen
> screen.blit(text, (0, 0))
> 
> So to make a high score list, you'd need something like:
> 
> x, y = 0, 0
> for (name, score) in highscore_list:
>        text = font.render("%s - %d" % (name, score), 1, (255, 255, 255, 0))
>        screen.blit(text, (x, y))
>        y += text.get_height()
> 
> Notice that I increase the y by the height of the text each time, putting each
> name and score on a new line.
> 
> --
> James Reeves
> http://www.monkeyengines.co.uk/
>