Displaying text on screen from a text file

[algae]

Hello,

I want to show 3 words at a time from a textfile or pdf. At a specified rate (select time 1/10 to 300 sec). A GUI based display

f = open("demofile.txt", "r") 
for x in f: print(x) input() 
f.close()

The speed of display and the pause / resume buttons are a problem. Could you help with this? thanks

[lewish95]

You could blit the highscores onto another surface and then blit this surf onto the screen. To blit the highscore list, use a for loop and enumerate the list, so that you can multiply the y-offset by i. To toggle the highscore surface, you can just add a variable highscores_visible = False and then do highscores_visible = not highscores_visible, and in the main loop check if highscores_visible: # blit the surf (press 'h' to update and toggle the highscore table in the example below). Of course you need to make sure that the names and highscores fit onto the surface.

[algae]

Thanks Lewish95. Very detailed and instructive reply. Regards

[algae]

Hi Lewish95, thanks for your detailed help. I couldn't make it happen as you suggested.
could you give a few code lines

thanks