Screen redraw and text

[eckythump]

Hi all. So, need some help with "screen updates". For battery life it's good to not keep drawing things on every update. In my game I have sprites which are not drawing each frame only when changing, but text, how is the best way of doing text.

I have drawText on update right now so that means my (never changing) text updates each frame.

Thanks
Paul

[Daeke (Raphaël Calabro)]

The easiest way is to create a sprite and draw you text inside its draw method. That way, it will not be redrawn until moved/dirty.

The following post may be a good example of how to do it in Lua:

An example of text in a sprite that can be updated

I am looking for an example of text in a sprite (which I am able to do) that will update when the text is changed. Right now I have a text in a rect that is able to display the initial text, but no updates after that. If I set "textboxDial.currentText" to something it properly displays that text. local gfx = playdate.graphics -- setup textboxDial sprite textboxDial = gfx.sprite.new() textboxDial:setSize(45, 35) textboxDial:moveTo(140, 135) textboxDial:setZIndex(899) textboxDial.text = "" textb…

[matt (gingerbeardman)]

The latest SDK has new functions:

• https://sdk.play.date/inside-playdate/#f-graphics.imageWithText
• https://sdk.play.date/inside-playdate/#f-graphics.sprite.spriteWithText

[Schyzophrenic]

Ooh I hadn't noticed these! That's really cool to have them, I will be able to replace parts of my custom library! I guess I need to spend more time reading the Release Notes