Re: [pygame] Newbie needs help, what's the most efficient (or easiest) way to do this?

["Charles Christie" <sonicbhoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, I get it. I remember there being a section in a pygame tutorial I
read having this in it, but if I put them in another sprite class, how
is it going to get the number of combos from the textsprite class to
blit on screen?

On 1/29/07, Patrick Mullen <saluk64007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, first I thought you weren't blitting the other text to the screen at
> all, now I see that you are, but you are doing it inside another sprites
> update() method.  The problem is that when you do
>
> dirty = all.draw (screen)
>
> It is only getting dirty rectangles for each sprite that is in all.  So it
> is only updating the rectangle belonging to the textsprite.image.  The other
> text displays should be individual sprites according to this architecture,
> or you could have an overlay sprite that blits them to a larger .image.
>
> Hope that helps you figure it out, although my description isn't so good.