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bluesplay106
bluesplay106

Reputation: 37

Pygame Overlays

Okay, so I want to make an overlay screen.

So whenever the keypress is p then the screen pauses and a screen pops up saying : "Press 'q' to quit or 'c' to continue," something like that.

Can anyone tell me how?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2087

Answers (1)

nchpmn
nchpmn

Reputation: 874

The easiest way to do this is using a submodule, then to create a new loop for blit()-ing to the screen and event handling for this pause menu.

(This is methodology only; this is how I work my projects.)

Update: 13/12/11

The following excerpt of code is from the "parent" module. This is just the loop section of code. What you're looking for is the line button.doAction(screen), which basically tells PyGame to execute the applicable submodule (not important; you just need to call the "child" function as you would normally).

while mainRunning:

    # --- Event Catching & Handling ---
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        # Quit PyGame safely upon exit
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            mainRunning = False

        # Make the buttons do actions
        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONUP:
            mousePos = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
            for button in menuList:
                X = button.getXPos()
                Y = button.getYPos()
                if X[0] < mousePos[0] < X[1] and Y[0] < mousePos[1] < Y [1]:
                    button.doAction(screen)

    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

So if we say that the function we wanted was playGame.levelChoose() - remember, this is [submodule].[function] - then the loop in the "child" would be:

def levelChoose(screen, playerData, playerName):
    levelChooseRunning = True

    while levelChooseRunning:
        # --- Event Catching & Handling ---
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            # Quit PyGame safely upon exit
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                levelMenuRunning = False

    pygame.display.flip()

(Of course, much code has been ommitted from these examples; if you'd like to pick apart the full files, they're over here on GitHub)

Let me know if there's more questions, because this probably just confused you some more...

Upvotes: 2

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