how to create a multicolor "font-string" in pygame??

[Iacopo.Marmo]

Hi! I need to manipulate multicolor strings, i.e. strings with a color
associated with each letter.
Any suggestions?

 

[Jorge Godoy]

Hi! I need to manipulate multicolor strings, i.e. strings with a color
associated with each letter.
Any suggestions?

If you're on Unix / Linux the curses module might help.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi! I need to manipulate multicolor strings, i.e. strings with a color
associated with each letter.
Any suggestions?

There is no support for multi-color strings as such in pygame. If you
use a fixed-width font, things are easy. Just create the strings one
after another using spaces as prefix. E.g.

back = (0,0,0)
font = pygame.font.Font(font_fn, size)
images = []
for i, c in enumerate("colored string"):
s = " " * i + c
color = color_for_index(i)
s_image = font.render(s, True, color, back)
images.append(s_image)


Then blit the images onto each other.

If you don't use fixed widht fonts, things get more complicated. Then
you should calculate the size of the prefix to a certain characer, and
store that together with the image:

text = "colored string"
back = (0,0,0)
font = pygame.font.Font(font_fn, size)
images = []
for i, c in enumerate(text):
s = " " * i + c
color = color_for_index(i)
prefix_offest = font.size(text[:i])
s_image = font.render(s, True, color, back)
images.append((prefix_offset, s_image))

Then you have to combine the images according to the prefix offset.

Diez

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi! I need to manipulate multicolor strings, i.e. strings with a color
associated with each letter.
Any suggestions?

There is no support for multi-color strings as such in pygame. If you
use a fixed-width font, things are easy. Just create the strings one
after another using spaces as prefix. E.g.

back = (0,0,0)
font = pygame.font.Font(font_fn, size)
images = []
for i, c in enumerate("colored string"):
s = " " * i + c
color = color_for_index(i)
s_image = font.render(s, True, color, back)
images.append(s_image)

Don't drink and code... *sigh*

Of course you can just create an equally dimensioned image for each
character and each color (cached or not, however you like it), and just
blit these one after another, offsetting them with the character width.

Diez

 

[Iacopo.Marmo]

Of course you can just create an equally dimensioned image for each

character and each color (cached or not, however you like it), and just
blit these one after another, offsetting them with the character width.

Diez

thanks.