Re: [pygame] font/text in pygame

[Sami Hangaslammi <sami.hangaslammi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/28/05, D. Hartley <denise.hartley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One last font question:
> 
> My code for lining up the two columns (score and name, both
> left-aligned), worked in the sample program:
> 
> slip = 30 - len(name)
> slip_amt = slip*" "
> 
> But it's not lining them up on my screen now?

You can't use spaces to align true-type fonts, as different letters
have different widths. The easiest way is probably to font.render the
name and score into separate surfaces and blit them separately. Using
the previous example code (not tested):

y = 100
for (name, score) in highscore_list:
      text_name = font.render(name, 1, (255, 255, 255, 0))
      text_score = font.render("%d" % score, 1, (255, 255, 255, 0))

      rect_name = text_name.get_rect()
      rect_score = text_score.get_rect()

      rect_name.left = 100  # x position for name column
      rect_score.left = 200  # x position for score column

      rect_name.top = y
      rect_score.top = y

      screen.blit(text_name, rect_name)
      screen.blit(text_score, rect_score)

      y += r.height


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Sami Hangaslammi