work in progress

Author: lionel42

pygame_matplotlib/backend_pygame.py

@@ -157,16 +157,12 @@ def draw_text(self, gc, x, y, s, prop, angle, ismath=False, mtext=None):
             s, gc.get_antialiased(), [val*255 for val in gc.get_rgb()]
         )
         if mtext is not None:
-            mtext.set_verticalalignment('bottom')
-            mtext.set_horizontalalignment('right')
+            # Reads the position of the mtext, but could use relative position to 0 instead
             x, y, _, _ = mtext.get_window_extent().bounds
-            # pygame starts from bottom left instead of middle
-            mtext.set_verticalalignment('center')
-            mtext.set_horizontalalignment('center')
-            new_x, new_y, _, _ = mtext.get_window_extent().bounds
-            print(x, y, new_x, new_y)
-            y += (new_y - y) * 2
-            x -= (new_x - x) * 2
+            width, height = myfont.size(s)
+            # Needs to resize to center
+            y += height / 2
+            x -= width / 2
         self.surface.blit(font_surface, (x, self.surface.get_height() - y))
 
     def flipy(self):

test_show.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 import matplotlib
 matplotlib.use('module://pygame_matplotlib.backend_pygame')
+#matplotlib.use('Qt4Agg')
 
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import matplotlib.figure as fg
@@ -15,4 +16,5 @@
 ax.text(1.5, 1.5, '2', size=50)
 ax.set_xlabel('swag')
 
-fig.show()
+
+plt.show()