YashJogani / pygame-textinput

A module for text input in pygame. It supports wrapping, key shortcuts and selection of text.

Pygame TextBox Input Module

Features

• This Class lets you write text at the blinking cursor.
• Wraps text to the next line if it exceeds the max_width.
• Enter, Delete, Home, End, Page Up and Page Down key works.
• Cursor can be moved using arrow keys or click on character to jump directly.
• Scrolling using mouse or scroll bar.
• Text Selection using mouse.
• Cut, Copy, Paste and Select all using shortcut.
• Ctrl and Shift shortcut works.
• It works just like you expect.

Using the Module

Its very simple to use this module. Create an object of the Class and then feed the update() with pygame-events.

• It will create surfaces of each line and store it in list only when any changes are made in the input_string for efficient rendering. List can be get using get_surface().
• Then call the render().
• If you don't want the text object to be updated with events.
  • Pass False to update().
  • It will not take any input and it will not render cursor too indicating its inactive.

Some part of code is borrowed from Pygame Text Input under the MIT license.