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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+##
+## Copyright (C) 2011 Emmanuel Gil Peyrot <linkmauve@linkmauve.fr>
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
+## by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 only.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+
+from copy import copy
+
+from pytouhou.game.sprite import Sprite
+from pytouhou.vm.anmrunner import ANMRunner
+
+
+class Glyph(object):
+    def __init__(self, sprite, pos):
+        self._sprite = sprite
+        self._removed = False
+
+        self.x, self.y = pos
+
+
+class Text(object):
+    def __init__(self, pos, text, front_wrapper, ascii_wrapper):
+        self._sprite = Sprite()
+        self._anmrunner = ANMRunner(front_wrapper, 22, self._sprite)
+        self._anmrunner.run_frame()
+        self._removed = False
+        self._changed = True
+
+        self.text = ''
+        self.glyphes = []
+
+        self.front_wrapper = front_wrapper
+        self.ascii_wrapper = ascii_wrapper
+
+        self.x, self.y = pos
+        self.set_text(text)
+
+
+    def objects(self):
+        return self.glyphes + [self]
+
+
+    def set_text(self, text):
+        if text == self.text:
+            return
+
+        if len(text) > len(self.glyphes):
+            ref_sprite = Sprite()
+            anm_runner = ANMRunner(self.ascii_wrapper, 0, ref_sprite)
+            anm_runner.run_frame()
+            ref_sprite.corner_relative_placement = True #TODO: perhaps not right, investigate.
+            self.glyphes.extend(Glyph(copy(ref_sprite), (self.x + 14*i, self.y))
+                for i in range(len(self.glyphes), len(text)))
+        elif len(text) < len(self.glyphes):
+            self.glyphes[:] = self.glyphes[:len(text)]
+
+        for glyph, character in zip(self.glyphes, text):
+            glyph._sprite.anm, glyph._sprite.texcoords = self.ascii_wrapper.get_sprite(ord(character) - 21)
+            glyph._sprite._changed = True
+
+        self.text = text
+        self._changed = True
+
+
+    def update(self):
+        if self._changed:
+            if self._anmrunner and not self._anmrunner.run_frame():
+                self._anmrunner = None
+            self._changed = False
+