Re: [pygame] font alpha

[Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence@xxxxxx>]

Rendering the semi-transparent text with the appropriate background  
'seems' to make it work again.

#---------------------------------
# Mike's Code modified to use non-black screen
import pygame
import time

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,480), pygame.SRCALPHA)
screen.fill((255,0,255))

myFont = pygame.font.Font(None, 30)

nonTransparent = myFont.render("This text should be fully opaque", 1,  
(255,255,255))
screen.blit(nonTransparent, (0,0))

myText = 'This text should be somewhat transparent'
semiTransparent = myFont.render(myText, 1, (255,255,255), (255,0,255))
newSurf = pygame.Surface(myFont.size(myText))
newSurf.blit(semiTransparent,(0,0))
newSurf.set_alpha(100)
screen.blit(newSurf, (0,100))

pygame.display.flip()

time.sleep(5)

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Mike Lawrence
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