How do I get input from a PyGame window?

Question

I am new to PyGame. I want my PyGame program to ask me for input on the GUI screen so when you execute the program you get the shell and PyGame, I don't want to give the input to the shell. I want to give it to the PyGame GUI. My input can be strings or ints. How can I do this?

Answer 1

EzText is a simple, easy to use library for text input in PyGame. The runtime is extremely easy to include into your own program. You can clone the EzText project into a local directory with the following commands:

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/ffavela/eztext.git

If you press Return it will store the input string in a variable, if you modify the source code by adding the string which is marked as bold text.

def update(self, events):
    """ Update the input based on passed events """ 
    for event in events: 
        if event.type == KEYUP: 
            if event.key == K_LSHIFT or event.key == K_RSHIFT: self.shifted = False 
        if event.type == KEYDOWN: 
            if event.key == K_BACKSPACE: self.value = self.value[:-1] 
            elif event.key == K_LSHIFT or event.key == K_RSHIFT: self.shifted = True 
            elif event.key == K_SPACE: self.value += ' ' 
            elif event.key == K_RETURN: return self.value