How to manage text input in pygame and in the cmd

Let’s see ho to get a multi plie text input, from this video of Coding with Russ.

With the following code you will see on the console the key you press

import pygame


pygame.init()
SCREEN_WIDTH = 800
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 600
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(
	(SCREEN_WIDTH,SCREEN_HEIGHT))
BG = (60, 114, 228)
TEXT_COL = (246, 247, 246)

run = True
while run:
	screen.fill(BG)
	for event in pygame.event.get():
		if event.type == pygame.TEXTINPUT:
			print(event.text)
		if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
			run = False
		pygame.display.flip()

Let’s add the chance to write more text instead of just one character per line.

import pygame
import os

pygame.init()
SCREEN_WIDTH = 800
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 600
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(
	(SCREEN_WIDTH,SCREEN_HEIGHT))
BG = (60, 114, 228)
TEXT_COL = (246, 247, 246)

text = ""
run = True
while run:
	screen.fill(BG)
	for event in pygame.event.get():
		if event.type == pygame.TEXTINPUT:
			text += event.text
			os.system("cls")
			print(text)
		if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
			run = False
		pygame.display.flip()

Let’s add a cursor (run from cmd)

import pygame
import os

pygame.init()
SCREEN_WIDTH = 800
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 600
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(
	(SCREEN_WIDTH,SCREEN_HEIGHT))
BG = (60, 114, 228)
TEXT_COL = (246, 247, 246)

text = ""
run = True
while run:
	screen.fill(BG)
	for event in pygame.event.get():
		if event.type == pygame.TEXTINPUT:
			os.system("cls")
			text += event.text
			print(text + "|")
		if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
			if event.key == pygame.K_BACKSPACE:
				os.system("cls")
				text = text[:-1]
				print(text + "|")
		if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
			run = False
		pygame.display.flip()

Adjusting the code another bit.

import pygame
import os

pygame.init()
SCREEN_WIDTH = 200
SCREEN_HEIGHT = 100
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(
	(SCREEN_WIDTH,SCREEN_HEIGHT))
BG = (60, 114, 228)
TEXT_COL = (246, 247, 246)

text = ""
run = True
while run:
	screen.fill(BG)
	for event in pygame.event.get():
		if event.type == pygame.TEXTINPUT:
			os.system("cls")
			text += event.text
			print(text + "|")
		if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
			if event.key == pygame.K_BACKSPACE:
				os.system("cls")
				text = text[:-1]
				print(text + "|")
			if event.key == pygame.K_RETURN:
				os.system("cls")
				text = text[:-1]
				text = text + "\n"
				print(text + "|")
		if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
			run = False
		pygame.display.flip()