Re: Improved pygame inputbox

On Sunday 29 May 2005 11:10 pm, Daniel Bickett wrote:
> Couldn't you improve the performance by only rendering more text if
> the text has changed? From a cursory scan through the code it seems as
> if you're rendering the text every loop, but couldn't you have
> display_box return its surface object, to be continually blitted until
> another character is entered and new text must be rendered?

It already does this. Notice this is part of the "while True" loop in the 
ask() function:

>	pygame.time.wait(50)
>	event = pygame.event.poll()
>
>	if event.type == QUIT:
>		sys.exit()       
>	if event.type != KEYDOWN:
>		continue

If no keep is pressed, the loop restarts. Thus, it waits for a keypress before 
drawing anything new. Because the input-box is blocking, there is also no 
need to reblit the screen.

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