benedsmith / PyTextBox

A little module for creating text boxes in Pygame and Python 2.7

PyTextBox

A little module for creating text boxes in Pygame and Python 2.7

Requires pygame (obviously)

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Documentation

Import the module

Import TextBox 

Create a textbox object

textbox1 = TextBox.TextBox(rect, text, background_colour, text_colour, font, font_size)

The rect - (x, y, width, height) Note: x and y are the top left corner of the textbox. Set to (0, 0, 400, 25) as default.

In the Pygame event loop:

This bit of code handles keyboard input

  if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    if textbox1.active == True:
       textbox1.text_input(event)

This tests if the textbox has been clicked

  textbox1.test_collide(event)

In the Pygame main loop:

Draw your textbox, after screen.fill and before display.flip

textbox1.draw(textbox1.text, screen)