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Create a Play Button in Pygame

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Because we need only one Play button, we’ll create the button in the

__init__() method of AlienInvasion. We can place this code at the very end
of __init__():

alien_invasion.py def __init__(self):


--snip--
self.game_active = False

# Make the Play button.


self.play_button = Button(self, "Play")

This code creates an instance of Button with the label Play, but it doesn’t
draw the button to the screen. To do this, we’ll call the button’s draw_button()
method in _update_screen():

alien_invasion.py def _update_screen(self):


--snip--
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# Draw the play button if the game is inactive.


if not self.game_active:
self.play_button.draw_button()

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To make the Play button visible above all other elements on the screen,
we draw it after all the other elements have been drawn but before flipping
to a new screen. We include it in an if block, so the button only appears
when the game is inactive.
Now when you run Alien Invasion, you should see a Play button in the
center of the screen, as shown in Figure 14-1.

Figure 14-1: A Play button appears when the game is inactive.

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