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cslarsen / wpm

Typeracer-like console app for measuring your WPM
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See typing and corpus on same line #35

Closed iltimasd closed 5 years ago

iltimasd commented 6 years ago

Would love to make a version that shows what you're typing on top of what needs to be typed. For me it reflects text area writing where you see your inputs live. maybe it just looks like you overwriting in red when youve mad a mistake

I'd actually love to try my hand at this if you could point me in the right direction.

cslarsen commented 6 years ago

I agree, and I've been thinking the same, but not found a good solution.

Take a look at highlight_progress in screen.py. There, incorrect is the number of incorrectly typed characters from the current position. I think what the user actually types is in self._edit somewhere (maybe in the Game class in game.py file). I believe it should be quite easy: Instead of just highlighting in red, take the characters from this _edit buffer instead.

Lastly, when the user backspaces, you need to render the correct characters again. Right now, I just change the background color, because I don't overwrite. Should be easy to fix. I think I operate on one character at a time, because it creates less latency for screen updates.

cslarsen commented 5 years ago

This issue is more than a year old. Closing.