Obtaining a user input value with pygame_textinput module?

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I've been working in my spare time on a simple game using pygame to allow me to get familiar with its code. The game I am making is a abstraction of a Four in a Row game which implements maths questions. To get the user's answer I am using a module called pygame_textinput. However, I am struggling to extract the user's answer which I want to then be able to compare to the correct answer, which will allow the user to place their disk in the grid.

The code for this I have is:

mathsanswer = pygame_textinput.TextInput()

This is outside of the main loop which I then call upon in the code below.

mathsanswer.update(events) #Check if user has inputted text
display.blit(mathsanswer.get_surface(), (600,725))

This part of the code works perfectly as the text the user types is displayed on screen.

However when I try to extract what the user has typed I get:

<pygame_textinput.TextInput object at 0x00000219C1F101D0>

Is there a way to get what the user has typed as the variable.

Thanks for any help.

What is the code that you use to try to get the input as a variable? — johnashu
– johnashu, Commented Mar 13, 2018 at 1:04
@johnashu I haven't got any code to try to get it as a variable. All i've tried to do is print (mathsanswer) which is when I get that value. I'm not sure how I would turn that into the what the user has typed in. — Kyle Cliffe
– Kyle Cliffe, Commented Mar 13, 2018 at 1:09

johnashu · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-13 01:19:51Z

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Try this.. you need to use get_text() to get the input.

To catch the user input after the user hits Return, simply evaluate the return value of the update()-method - it is always False except for when the user hits Return, then it's True. To get the inputted text, use get_text(). Example:

if mathsanswer.update(events):
    print(mathsanswer.get_text())

answered Mar 13, 2018 at 1:19

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Kyle Cliffe Over a year ago

Thanks. Works perfectly.

johnashu Over a year ago

can you select it as the correct answer please? the green tick :) Good luck with the game !

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