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how to add textbox in pygame window

Defeated Dingo answered on January 9, 2022 Popularity 9/10 Helpfulness 5/10

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# import sys module
import pygame
import sys
  
  
# pygame.init() will initialize all
# imported module
pygame.init()
  
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
  
# it will display on screen
screen = pygame.display.set_mode([600, 500])
  
# basic font for user typed
base_font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)
user_text = ''
  
# create rectangle
input_rect = pygame.Rect(200, 200, 140, 32)
  
# color_active stores color(lightskyblue3) which
# gets active when input box is clicked by user
color_active = pygame.Color('lightskyblue3')
  
# color_passive store color(chartreuse4) which is
# color of input box.
color_passive = pygame.Color('chartreuse4')
color = color_passive
  
active = False
  
while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
  
      # if user types QUIT then the screen will close
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            sys.exit()
  
        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            if input_rect.collidepoint(event.pos):
                active = True
            else:
                active = False
  
        if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
  
            # Check for backspace
            if event.key == pygame.K_BACKSPACE:
  
                # get text input from 0 to -1 i.e. end.
                user_text = user_text[:-1]
  
            # Unicode standard is used for string
            # formation
            else:
                user_text += event.unicode
      
    # it will set background color of screen
    screen.fill((255, 255, 255))
  
    if active:
        color = color_active
    else:
        color = color_passive
          
    # draw rectangle and argument passed which should
    # be on screen
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, color, input_rect)
  
    text_surface = base_font.render(user_text, True, (255, 255, 255))
      
    # render at position stated in arguments
    screen.blit(text_surface, (input_rect.x+5, input_rect.y+5))
      
    # set width of textfield so that text cannot get
    # outside of user's text input
    input_rect.w = max(100, text_surface.get_width()+10)
      
    # display.flip() will update only a portion of the
    # screen to updated, not full area
    pygame.display.flip()
      
    # clock.tick(60) means that for every second at most
    # 60 frames should be passed.
    clock.tick(60)

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Contributed on Jan 09 2022

Defeated Dingo

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import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *

pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((600,400))
pygame.display.set_caption('Test')

fontSize = 40
font = pygame.font.SysFont('your font name', fontSize) #if you want to use the font you download use Font(), if not use SysFont()

def draw_text(text,x,y,color):
  label = font.render(text, True, color)
  
  window.blit(label, (x,y))

while True:
  window.fill((50,50,50)) #you can put any color here
  
  draw_text('your text',50,50,(255,255,255))
  
  for event in pygame.event.get():
	if event.type == QUIT:
      pygame.quit()
      sys.exit()
  
  pygame.display.update()

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