Pygame Text Input Module

This small module can be used to write text in pygame. It includes a blinking cursor that can be moved using the left and right as well as the home and the end button. Any key can be pressed for an extended period of time to make that key re-enter itself many times a second.

Here's an example of the module in use using the Ubuntu font:

Usage

The module is very easy to use. Simply create an instance of InputText in your code and then feed its update-method with pygame-events every frame. The surface with the text and the cursor can then be gotten using get_surface().

Here's a small example that displays a white window with the InputText-surface on it:

#!/usr/bin/python3
import pygame_textinput
import pygame
pygame.init()

# Create TextInput-object
textinput = pygame_textinput.TextInput()

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1000, 200))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

while True:
    screen.fill((225, 225, 225))

    events = pygame.event.get()
    for event in events:
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            exit()

    # Feed it with events every frame
    textinput.update(events)
    # Blit its surface onto the screen
    screen.blit(textinput.get_surface(), (10, 10))

    pygame.display.update()
    clock.tick(30)

If you want to catch the user input after the user hits Return, simply evaluate the return value of the update()-method - it is always False except for when the user hits Return, then it's True. To get the inputted text, use get_text(). Example:

if textinput.update(events):
    print(textinput.get_text())

Arguments:

Arguments for the initalisation of the TextInput-object (all of them are optional)