Exit the game on the main menu page or during the game stage

In this chapter we will edit the main file of the pygame project so when we click on the ‘x’ button on the top right of the game window during the game stage or we click on the exit button on the main menu page, the current game level will be saved and the game will exit. The position of the exit button on the start scene class remains unchanged so the only file we need to edit is the main file where we will create an exit button rectangle which will be used to determine whether the exit button has been clicked or not, if so then the game will exit. Or else if the ‘x’ button has been clicked then the game will exit as well.

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
from GameManager import GameManager

pygame.init()

size = width, height = 640, 640
pygame.display.set_caption("Amaze Boy")  # set the title of the window
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)
game_manager = GameManager(screen)
rect_exit = Rect(229, 456, 200, 53)  # the position of the exit button on the home scene
running = True
pygame.key.set_repeat(100, 40)

while running:

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        # when the user clicks on the 'x'
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            game_manager.save_level()
            running = False

        # detect key press event
        if event.type == KEYDOWN:

            if (game_manager.state == 1):

                if event.key == K_LEFT:
                    game_manager.set_player_x(-2)
                elif event.key == K_RIGHT:
                    game_manager.set_player_x(2)
                elif event.key == K_UP:
                    game_manager.set_player_y(-2)
                elif event.key == K_DOWN:
                    game_manager.set_player_y(2)

        elif event.type == KEYUP:

            if (game_manager.state == 1):

                if event.key == K_LEFT:
                    game_manager.set_player_x(0)
                elif event.key == K_RIGHT:
                    game_manager.set_player_x(0)
                elif event.key == K_UP:
                    game_manager.set_player_y(0)
                elif event.key == K_DOWN:
                    game_manager.set_player_y(0)
                elif event.key == K_p:
                    game_manager.set_pause(True)  # set the pause state to true
                elif event.key == K_s: # take the game screenshot
                    game_manager.save_scene()

        elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            x, y = event.pos
            if (rect_exit.collidepoint(x, y) and game_manager.state == game_manager.LOAD):
                game_manager.save_level()
                running = False
            # 1 is the left mouse button
            elif event.button == 1:
                game_manager.isAreaClick(x, y)

    game_manager.loop()

We have already included the code of the save_level method of the game manager class in the previous chapter so we will not show that same code again in this chapter. Here is the final outcome.

Working on the exit button for the ongoing @pygame project pic.twitter.com/qquSj7AOE5

— TechLikin (@ChooWhei) March 13, 2019

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