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Sane · Apr 9th, 2005, 4:16 PM

...just another snipet of my RPG. It's a module that allows easy display of a character's dialogue with little effort.

You just take the main code, add where and what color you want the text to be. Along with whatever else. Then you just simple do a little function call whenever you want the dialogue displayed.

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import pygame

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 700))
pygame.mouse.set_visible(1)

def dialogue(name, speech):


    #constant variables most likely to be changed: 
    text_boxX = 150
    text_boxY = 150
    speed = 100
    color = (255, 255, 255)
    #/end constants
    
    
    pygame.font.init()
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))

    font = pygame.font.Font(None, 17)

    text = font.render(name + ":", 2, (255, 255, 255))
    textpos = (text_boxX, text_boxY)
    background.blit(text, textpos)
    screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
    pygame.display.flip()

    clock = pygame.time.Clock()

    font = pygame.font.Font(None, 14)

    for letter in range(0, len(speech)):

        clock.tick(-(speed-200))
        texta = speech[letter]
        text = font.render(texta, 2, color)
        textpos = ( text_boxX+8*(len (name) )+5+(letter*8), (text_boxY+2) )
        background.blit(text, textpos)
        screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
        pygame.display.flip()

Then in my main program, for some dialogue, I might go:

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from speech_function import *
import time

background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
background = background.convert()
background.fill((0, 0, 0))
dialogue("Turk", "Are we there yet?")
time.sleep(2)
background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
background = background.convert()
background.fill((0, 0, 0))
dialogue("Gurshnu", "Just a little further!!")
time.sleep(2)
background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
background = background.convert()
background.fill((0, 0, 0))
dialogue("Turk", "Okay...I've got an idea!...")
time.sleep(2)
for amount in range(-99, 1):

    songa = str(-amount)    
    songb = "Bottles of beer on the wall,"
    songd = "bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around"
    songe = str(-amount-1)
    songf = "bottles of beer on the wall!"
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
    dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songa)
    time.sleep(1)
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
    dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songb)
    time.sleep(1)
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
    dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songa)
    time.sleep(1)
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
    dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songd)
    time.sleep(3)
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
    dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songe)
    background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
    background = background.convert()
    background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
    dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songf)
    time.sleep(2)

background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size())
background = background.convert()
background.fill((0, 0, 0))  
dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", "*stabs eachother*")

I'm now adding a small if statement to detect the end of a line and move down to the next...

Cerulean · Apr 9th, 2005, 5:12 PM

You say small if statement but it's a lot trickier than that. I had to write a text area widget for a game in OpenGL.. not something I want to have to do again

Sane · Apr 9th, 2005, 5:16 PM

No, it was small. I finished a while ago:

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import pygame
import time

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 500))
pygame.mouse.set_visible(1)

#gamescreen = pygame.image.load("gamescreen.bmp")
#screen.blit(gamescreen, (50, 0) )
#gamescreen = pygame.image.load("text_box.bmp")
#screen.blit(gamescreen, (227, 327) )
#pygame.display.flip()

def dialogue(name, speech):


    #constant variables most likely to be changed: 
    text_boxX = 235
    text_boxY = 333
    speed = -100
    color = (255, 255, 255)
    #/end constants
    
    pygame.font.init()
    font = pygame.font.Font(None, 17)

    text = font.render(name + ":", 2, (255, 255, 255))
    textpos = (text_boxX, text_boxY)
    screen.blit(text, textpos)
    pygame.display.flip()

    clock = pygame.time.Clock()

    font = pygame.font.Font(None, 14)

    for letter in range(0, len(speech)):

        clock.tick(-(speed-200))
        texta = speech[letter]
        text = font.render(texta, 2, color)
        if (text_boxX+8*(len(name))+5+(letter*7)) > 565-14:
            if letter > 70:
                cursor_return = 0
                while cursor_return == 0:
                    cursor = pygame.image.load("cursor.bmp")
                    screen.blit(cursor, (554, 353) )
                    pygame.display.flip()
                    time.sleep(1)
                    cursor = pygame.image.load("cursora.bmp")
                    screen.blit(cursor, (554, 353) )
                    pygame.display.flip()
                    time.sleep(1)
        if (text_boxX+8*(len(name))+5+(letter*7)) > 565:
            if (text_boxX+8*(len(name))+5+(letter*7)) < 571:
                text_boxX = text_boxX - letter*7
                text_boxY = text_boxY + 15
                        
        textpos = ( text_boxX+8*(len (name) )+5+(letter*7), (text_boxY+2) )
        screen.blit(text, textpos)
        pygame.display.flip()

#dialogue("Turk", "HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR")

When the text gets too far it bumps down a line. Then the second time the program stops outputting, displays a blinking cursor (and now I'm going to make it wait for input from the user to clear the textbox and continue outputting)...

Infinite Recursion · Apr 10th, 2005, 5:49 PM

seems pretty straight forward, i really need to pick up on some python... but I'm thinking my time is spread to thin at the moment... may need to drop a few languages off the plate for now.

Apr 9th, 2005, 4:16 PM	#1
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Posts: 1,886 Rep Power: 5	Neat little program... ...just another snipet of my RPG. It's a module that allows easy display of a character's dialogue with little effort. You just take the main code, add where and what color you want the text to be. Along with whatever else. Then you just simple do a little function call whenever you want the dialogue displayed. (Toggle Plain Text) import pygame pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 700)) pygame.mouse.set_visible(1) def dialogue(name, speech): #constant variables most likely to be changed: text_boxX = 150 text_boxY = 150 speed = 100 color = (255, 255, 255) #/end constants pygame.font.init() background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) font = pygame.font.Font(None, 17) text = font.render(name + ":", 2, (255, 255, 255)) textpos = (text_boxX, text_boxY) background.blit(text, textpos) screen.blit(background, (0, 0)) pygame.display.flip() clock = pygame.time.Clock() font = pygame.font.Font(None, 14) for letter in range(0, len(speech)): clock.tick(-(speed-200)) texta = speech[letter] text = font.render(texta, 2, color) textpos = ( text_boxX+8(len (name) )+5+(letter8), (text_boxY+2) ) background.blit(text, textpos) screen.blit(background, (0, 0)) pygame.display.flip() import pygame pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 700)) pygame.mouse.set_visible(1) def dialogue(name, speech): #constant variables most likely to be changed: text_boxX = 150 text_boxY = 150 speed = 100 color = (255, 255, 255) #/end constants pygame.font.init() background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) font = pygame.font.Font(None, 17) text = font.render(name + ":", 2, (255, 255, 255)) textpos = (text_boxX, text_boxY) background.blit(text, textpos) screen.blit(background, (0, 0)) pygame.display.flip() clock = pygame.time.Clock() font = pygame.font.Font(None, 14) for letter in range(0, len(speech)): clock.tick(-(speed-200)) texta = speech[letter] text = font.render(texta, 2, color) textpos = ( text_boxX+8(len (name) )+5+(letter8), (text_boxY+2) ) background.blit(text, textpos) screen.blit(background, (0, 0)) pygame.display.flip() Then in my main program, for some dialogue, I might go: (Toggle Plain Text) from speech_function import * import time background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk", "Are we there yet?") time.sleep(2) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Gurshnu", "Just a little further!!") time.sleep(2) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk", "Okay...I've got an idea!...") time.sleep(2) for amount in range(-99, 1): songa = str(-amount) songb = "Bottles of beer on the wall," songd = "bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around" songe = str(-amount-1) songf = "bottles of beer on the wall!" background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songa) time.sleep(1) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songb) time.sleep(1) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songa) time.sleep(1) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songd) time.sleep(3) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songe) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songf) time.sleep(2) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", "stabs eachother") from speech_function import * import time background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk", "Are we there yet?") time.sleep(2) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Gurshnu", "Just a little further!!") time.sleep(2) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk", "Okay...I've got an idea!...") time.sleep(2) for amount in range(-99, 1): songa = str(-amount) songb = "Bottles of beer on the wall," songd = "bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around" songe = str(-amount-1) songf = "bottles of beer on the wall!" background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songa) time.sleep(1) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songb) time.sleep(1) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songa) time.sleep(1) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songd) time.sleep(3) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songe) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", songf) time.sleep(2) background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) background = background.convert() background.fill((0, 0, 0)) dialogue("Turk and Gurshnu", "stabs eachother") I'm now adding a small if statement to detect the end of a line and move down to the next...

Apr 9th, 2005, 5:16 PM	#3
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Posts: 1,886 Rep Power: 5	No, it was small. I finished a while ago: (Toggle Plain Text) import pygame import time pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 500)) pygame.mouse.set_visible(1) #gamescreen = pygame.image.load("gamescreen.bmp") #screen.blit(gamescreen, (50, 0) ) #gamescreen = pygame.image.load("text_box.bmp") #screen.blit(gamescreen, (227, 327) ) #pygame.display.flip() def dialogue(name, speech): #constant variables most likely to be changed: text_boxX = 235 text_boxY = 333 speed = -100 color = (255, 255, 255) #/end constants pygame.font.init() font = pygame.font.Font(None, 17) text = font.render(name + ":", 2, (255, 255, 255)) textpos = (text_boxX, text_boxY) screen.blit(text, textpos) pygame.display.flip() clock = pygame.time.Clock() font = pygame.font.Font(None, 14) for letter in range(0, len(speech)): clock.tick(-(speed-200)) texta = speech[letter] text = font.render(texta, 2, color) if (text_boxX+8(len(name))+5+(letter7)) > 565-14: if letter > 70: cursor_return = 0 while cursor_return == 0: cursor = pygame.image.load("cursor.bmp") screen.blit(cursor, (554, 353) ) pygame.display.flip() time.sleep(1) cursor = pygame.image.load("cursora.bmp") screen.blit(cursor, (554, 353) ) pygame.display.flip() time.sleep(1) if (text_boxX+8(len(name))+5+(letter7)) > 565: if (text_boxX+8(len(name))+5+(letter7)) < 571: text_boxX = text_boxX - letter7 text_boxY = text_boxY + 15 textpos = ( text_boxX+8(len (name) )+5+(letter7), (text_boxY+2) ) screen.blit(text, textpos) pygame.display.flip() #dialogue("Turk", "HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR") import pygame import time pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 500)) pygame.mouse.set_visible(1) #gamescreen = pygame.image.load("gamescreen.bmp") #screen.blit(gamescreen, (50, 0) ) #gamescreen = pygame.image.load("text_box.bmp") #screen.blit(gamescreen, (227, 327) ) #pygame.display.flip() def dialogue(name, speech): #constant variables most likely to be changed: text_boxX = 235 text_boxY = 333 speed = -100 color = (255, 255, 255) #/end constants pygame.font.init() font = pygame.font.Font(None, 17) text = font.render(name + ":", 2, (255, 255, 255)) textpos = (text_boxX, text_boxY) screen.blit(text, textpos) pygame.display.flip() clock = pygame.time.Clock() font = pygame.font.Font(None, 14) for letter in range(0, len(speech)): clock.tick(-(speed-200)) texta = speech[letter] text = font.render(texta, 2, color) if (text_boxX+8(len(name))+5+(letter7)) > 565-14: if letter > 70: cursor_return = 0 while cursor_return == 0: cursor = pygame.image.load("cursor.bmp") screen.blit(cursor, (554, 353) ) pygame.display.flip() time.sleep(1) cursor = pygame.image.load("cursora.bmp") screen.blit(cursor, (554, 353) ) pygame.display.flip() time.sleep(1) if (text_boxX+8(len(name))+5+(letter7)) > 565: if (text_boxX+8(len(name))+5+(letter7)) < 571: text_boxX = text_boxX - letter7 text_boxY = text_boxY + 15 textpos = ( text_boxX+8(len (name) )+5+(letter7), (text_boxY+2) ) screen.blit(text, textpos) pygame.display.flip() #dialogue("Turk", "HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR") When the text gets too far it bumps down a line. Then the second time the program stops outputting, displays a blinking cursor (and now I'm going to make it wait for input from the user to clear the textbox and continue outputting)...

Apr 10th, 2005, 5:49 PM	#4
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,467 Rep Power: 8	seems pretty straight forward, i really need to pick up on some python... but I'm thinking my time is spread to thin at the moment... may need to drop a few languages off the plate for now. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

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Apr 9th, 2005, 5:12 PM	#2
Cerulean Professional Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London, England Posts: 459 Rep Power: 4	You say small if statement but it's a lot trickier than that. I had to write a text area widget for a game in OpenGL.. not something I want to have to do again

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Neat little program...