Re: [pygame] tab rendering in text?

[Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>]

Lee Harr wrote:
> > Is there a way to make pygame render the tabs in text properly?
> How about just replacing them with spaces before rendering?
>
> a = 'some\tstring\twith tabs and spaces'
> b = a.replace('\t', ' '*4)
I worked out a function to let me render text with tabs so it acts like 
I expect tabs to act. Mostly it just tracks tab offsets and aligns to 
those and renders each text fragment in the proper place on the surface 
which is then returned.

The only problem is that I can't seem to make the surface I'm rendering 
to transparent in the way font.render () does. I can make the surface 
color transparent but then it looks bad (I get speckles of the color 
around the font edges).. I guess because of the anti-aliasing. Any 
suggestions?

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Michael <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
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