Re: [pygame] Enter name before game starts

[Dan Ross <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the example Daniel. That'll help a bunch.

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:24:11 -0400, Daniel Tousignant-Brodeur  wrote:  

I'd have to second Kris on that one. State Management should make your
code cleaner and simpler!  At least, it does in my case. 
Daniel Tousignant-Brodeur

 On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Kris Schnee  wrote:
  On 2010.4.27 3:01 AM, Alex Nordlund wrote:
  Basically, I'd like to have the game start, present a screen for the
user
 to enter their name, then move to the main game loop.

 I solved this by having a state variable in my game's mainclass, one
 that keeps track of where the game is.
 Thanks to sjbrown I have a very nice way of handling input so it was
 easy as pie!
  I do state management with a homemade module called "ringtale" (
http://kschnee.xepher.net/code/ringtale.py.txt [2] ). The idea is that
there's a main loop that handles Pygame events (including QUIT), and calls
self.Logic() and self.Draw(), where those two functions are redefined
based
on a current state. Eg. if it's told to push a state called "Spam" onto
its
stack of states, it'll look for functions named SpamDraw and SpamLogic,
and
say self.Logic = self.SpamLogic until further notice. So that's one way of
doing things like a name-entry screen, even in the beginning or middle of
another set of functions.

 

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[2] http://kschnee.xepher.net/code/ringtale.py.txt