everything works, even fonts

src/doodles/examples/words.py

@@ -2,12 +2,6 @@ import random
 import itertools
 from doodles import Group, Circle, Color, Text
 
-# TODO: depending on system these fonts often do not have all the
-# necessary characters, find 3 widely available fonts that do
-Text.make_font("small", 16, "mono")
-Text.make_font("medium", 24, "copperplate")
-Text.make_font("large", 48, "papyrus")
-
 # Via ChatGPT
 hello_world = [
     "Hello, World!",  # English

src/doodles/text.py

@@ -1,85 +1,50 @@
 import pygame
 from .doodles import Doodle
+from .world import world
 
-# TOOD: make configurable
-DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE = 24
 
 class Text(Doodle):
-    # Having each bit of text on the screen load a separate copy
-    # of its font would be wasteful, since the most common case would
-    # be for most text to use the same font.
-    #
-    # The solution here is to use a class attribute, shared by *all* instances
-    # of the class.
-    #
-    # This is an implementation of the Flyweight design pattern, which
-    # allows multiple objects to share some state.
-    #
-    # This can quickly become a mess if the shared state is mutable,
-    # note that here, once a font is loaded it does not change.
-    # This avoids nearly all pitfalls associated with this approach.
-    _fonts: dict[str, pygame.font.Font] = {}
-
-    # this method is attached to the class `Text`, not individual instances
-    # like normal methods (which take self as their implicit parameter)
-    @classmethod
-    def make_font(cls, name, size, font=None, bold=False, italic=False):
-        """
-        The way fonts work in most graphics libraries requires choosing a font
-        size, as well as any variation (bold, italic) at the time of creation.
-
-        It would be nice if we could allow individual Text objects vary these,
-        but doing so would be much more complex or require significantly more
-        memory.
-        """
-        if font is None:
-            font = pygame.font.Font(None, size)
-        else:
-            path = pygame.font.match_font(font, bold=bold, italic=italic)
-            font = pygame.font.Font(path, size)
-        cls._fonts[name] = font
-
-    @classmethod
-    def get_font(cls, name=None):
-        if not name:
-            # None -> default font
-            # load on demand
-            if None not in cls._fonts:
-                cls._fonts[None] = pygame.font.Font(None, DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE)
-            return cls._fonts[None]
-        else:
-            return cls._fonts[name]
-
     def __init__(self, parent=None):
         """
         Text will be centered at `pos`
         """
         super().__init__(parent)
         self._text = ""
-        self._rendered = None
+        self._rendered = None  # the surface we pre-render the text to
         self._font = None
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return f"Text(pos={self.pos_vec}, text={self._text}, parent={self._parent})"
 
-    def draw(self, screen):
+    def draw(self):
-        text_rect = self._rendered.get_rect(center=self.world_vec)
+        world.draw_engine.text_draw(self)
-        screen.blit(self._rendered, text_rect)
 
     def text(self, text: str) -> "Doodle":
         """
-        A setter for the text
+        A setter for the text.
+
+        This is the only place text can change,
+        so we can pre-render the surface here.
         """
         self._text = text
+        self._render()
+        return self
+
+    def _render(self):
+        """
+        This function needs to set the _rendered property.
+
+        _rendered may be relied upon by draw_engine.draw_text.
+        """
         # text needs to be rendered once on change to be performant
         # doing this in draw would be much slower since it is called
         # much more often than the text changes
         if not self._font:
-            self._font = self.get_font()    # default font
+            self._font = world.draw_engine.get_font()  # default font
-        self._rendered = self._font.render(self._text, True, self._color)
+        self._rendered = world.draw_engine.text_render(
-        return self
+            self._text, self._font, self._color
+        )
 
     def font(self, font: str) -> "Doodle":
-        # TODO: error checking
+        self._font = world.draw_engine.get_font(font)
-        self._font =  self._fonts[font]
         return self

src/doodles/world.py

@@ -3,12 +3,66 @@ import pygame
 # TODO: fix this with a dynamic load
 from .draw_engine import DrawEngine
 
+# TODO: make configurable
+DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE = 24
+
 
 class PygameDrawEngine(DrawEngine):
+    # Having each bit of text on the screen load a separate copy
+    # of its font would be wasteful, since the most common case would
+    # be for most text to use the same font.
+    #
+    # The solution here is to use a class attribute, shared by *all* instances
+    # of the class.
+    #
+    # This is an implementation of the Flyweight design pattern, which
+    # allows multiple objects to share some state.
+    #
+    # This can quickly become a mess if the shared state is mutable,
+    # note that here, once a font is loaded it does not change.
+    # This avoids nearly all pitfalls associated with this approach.
+    _fonts: dict[str, pygame.font.Font] = {}
+
+    # this method is attached to the class `Text`, not individual instances
+    # like normal methods (which take self as their implicit parameter)
+    @classmethod
+    def make_font(cls, name, size, font=None, bold=False, italic=False):
+        """
+        The way fonts work in most graphics libraries requires choosing a font
+        size, as well as any variation (bold, italic) at the time of creation.
+
+        It would be nice if we could allow individual Text objects vary these,
+        but doing so would be much more complex or require significantly more
+        memory.
+        """
+        if font is None:
+            font = pygame.font.Font(None, size)
+        else:
+            path = pygame.font.match_font(font, bold=bold, italic=italic)
+            font = pygame.font.Font(path, size)
+        cls._fonts[name] = font
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_font(cls, name=None):
+        if not name:
+            # None -> default font
+            # load on demand
+            if None not in cls._fonts:
+                cls._fonts[None] = pygame.font.Font(None, DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE)
+            return cls._fonts[None]
+        else:
+            return cls._fonts[name]
+
     def init(self):
         self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((world.WIDTH, world.HEIGHT))
         self.buffer = pygame.Surface((world.WIDTH, world.HEIGHT), pygame.SRCALPHA)
 
+        # TODO: depending on system these fonts often do not have all the
+        # necessary characters, find 3 widely available fonts that do
+        world.draw_engine.make_font("small", 16, "mono")
+        world.draw_engine.make_font("medium", 24, "copperplate")
+        world.draw_engine.make_font("large", 48, "papyrus")
+
     def render(self, background_color: Color, drawables: list["Doodle"]):
         self.buffer.fill((*background_color, 255))
         for d in sorted(drawables, key=lambda d: d._z_index):
@@ -32,6 +86,16 @@ class PygameDrawEngine(DrawEngine):
     def line_draw(self, ll: "Line"):
         pygame.draw.aaline(self.buffer, ll.rgba, ll.world_vec, ll.end_vec)
 
+    def text_render(self, text: str, font: str, color: Color) -> "TODO":
+        """ returns an intermediated RenderedText """
+        # TODO: add accessor text_val
+        return font.render(text, True, color)
+
+    def text_draw(self, txt: "Text"):
+        # this is a tight coupling, intentionally left
+        text_rect = txt._rendered.get_rect(center=txt.world_vec)
+        self.buffer.blit(txt._rendered, text_rect)
+
 
 class World:
     """