awesome :)
yeah, maybe some text layout code would be a useful addition to pygame.font ? Or even as a separate download. Shall we start by making an ultimate list of features, or use cases... - aligning text, left, right, center etc. - vertical alignment... top, bottom, center. - justify text. - breaking words (word-break), so it can add a long word like "complexifcation" as "complexif-\ncation" - splitting text up into 'pages', - different sized pages or Rects could be useful too. - scrolling text. - selecting text. Based on mouse click, which letter and word does it collide with? - each part of text having a separate font/attributes. So you can then do words with bold, italics etc. - letter spacing - line spacing - word spacing - flowing around areas... - eg( place an image, and the text flows around it) - example here: http://www.csstextwrap.com/example_for_demo.php - indenting - padding around text. - text color - text render method. Anything else? On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Charlie Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll happily chip in my word-wrap code, if you want it as a starting > point for pygame. It's not beautiful, but it does have a very nice > property: > > orig_string[x] -> "".join(wrapped_string)[x] > > They're not always equal, because it converts some spaces to a > zero-width character for alignment purposes. (The char was originally > \x00, hence strip_to_null, but that caused issues elsewhere, > presumably with C strings.) > > http://code.google.com/p/endgame-singularity/source/browse/trunk/code/graphics/text.py?r=892 > > -FM > > On 9/17/08, pymike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yeah pygame.font needs support for \n. :P >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Charlie Nolan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >> >>> Hmm, I've written this too. Given that it seems pretty common, >>> wouldn't this be a good candidate for adding to pygame.font.Font? >>> >>> -FM >>> >>> On 9/16/08, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:11:45PM +1000, 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? >>> > >>> > http://mg.pov.lt/pyspacewar/trac/browser/trunk/src/pyspacewar/ui.py#L466 >>> > >>> > Output example: http://mg.pov.lt/pyspacewar/pyspacewar-help-screen.png >>> > >>> > It's GPL-ed, feel free to use or ask me for a licence change if that's >>> > not suitable. >>> > >>> > Marius Gedminas >>> > -- >>> > If you are smart enough to know that you're not smart enough to be an >>> > Engineer, then you're in Business. >>> > >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> - pymike (http://pymike.4rensics.org/) >> >