There are generally two ways to use fonts in pygame: pygame.font.Font() and pygame.font.SysFont(). pygame.font.Font() expects a path to a font file as its first parameter, whereas pygame.font.SysFont() expects a string with the name of the font. You can load any TrueType font file (*.ttf) with pygame.font.Font(). To load the font file myfont.ttf in your project … Read more
pygame.draw functions will not draw with alpha. The documentation says: Most of the arguments accept a color argument that is an RGB triplet. These can also accept an RGBA quadruplet. The alpha value will be written directly into the Surface if it contains pixel alphas, but the draw function will not draw transparently. What you … Read more
You can always just center the text rectangle when you grab it: # draw text font = pygame.font.Font(None, 25) text = font.render(“You win!”, True, BLACK) text_rect = text.get_rect(center=(SCREEN_WIDTH/2, SCREEN_HEIGHT/2)) screen.blit(text, text_rect) just another option
You can define a rect as the area of the input box. If a pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN event occurs, use the colliderect method of the input_box rect to check if it collides with the event.pos and then activate it by setting a active variable to True. If the box is active you can type something and Pygame … Read more
The play function starts the music playing, but returns immediately. Then your program reaches it’s end, and the pygame object is automatically destroyed which causes the music to stop. As you commented, it does play the music if you wait for it before exiting – because then the pygame object isn’t destroyed until the while … Read more
pygame is richly active, witness the Aug release of 1.9 with nokia s60 support, enhanced py2app/py2exe support, and a bevvy of experimental features (support for Python 3.1, webcams, gfx, …). Books like Hello World and periodic, fun competitions like ludumdare and pyweek bear witness to the vitality of its community and ecosystem. pyglet has a … Read more
Yes. It is possible to draw text in pygame: # initialize font; must be called after ‘pygame.init()’ to avoid ‘Font not Initialized’ error myfont = pygame.font.SysFont(“monospace”, 15) # render text label = myfont.render(“Some text!”, 1, (255,255,0)) screen.blit(label, (100, 100))
reinstall python – you don’t have python33.dll in c:\WINDOWS\system32\ Maybe you have different python versions – look at folders in root of c: If yes, then point to your version of python.exe in pyCharm > Settings > Project Interpreter
Tested and works on macOS 10.15 Catalina, Python 3.7.5, PyGame 2.0.0 (pre-release as of this writing) and PyGame 1.9.6 (stable as of this writing). Initially you need to decide if you want a stable release or a pre-release (unstable). If you decide to use the latest (and possibly pre-release/unstable) then just ignore the first step … Read more