hi, The cookbook entry has been updated with a multiline function, that seems to work ok. http://www.pygame.org/wiki/TextWrapping
I guess for right justify, the lines could be blit from the right of the screen minus text width. To center it, you would blit at the (screen_width - text_width) / 2. cheers, On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 03:11:45 René Dudfield wrote: >> The cookbook has this entry, but it doesn't work with new lines. >> http://www.pygame.org/wiki/TextWrapping >> >> Anyone have any code like this that supports new lines? > > Is this any use to you? > https://kamaelia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kamaelia/trunk/Code/Python/Kamaelia/Kamaelia/UI/Pygame/Text.py > > The code can be used by itself but will look a little odd - it's got a > slightly wierd way of getting a surface to display on inside "initPygame" > and the equivalent of pygame.flip() is in the end of "updateLine" (the redraw > request), but other than than it's pretty normal normal code. > > (The reason for the oddity is because it allows pygame based components to be > written as if they own the whole display, and then to be changed slightly in > small steps to share the display) > > To see what it looks like quickly, it'd probably be easiest to grab the latest > kamaelia release: > http://edit.kamaelia.org/release/Kamaelia-0.6.0-rc7.tar.gz > > Do the usual setup.py dance, and then: > ~/Kamaelia-0.6.0-rc7> cd Examples/SimpleGraphicalApps/TextBox/ > ~/Kamaelia-0.6.0-rc7/Examples/SimpleGraphicalApps/TextBox> > ./Textbox_TextDisplayer_Demo.py > > Handles different font sizes etc happily. Only supports left justified text at > the moment. > > > Michael. >
