Why is my PyGame application not running at all?
I have a simple Pygame program:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((400,400))
pygame.display.set_caption("My first game")
But every time I try to run it, I get this:
pygame 2.0.0 (SDL 2.0.12, python 3.8.3)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
And then nothing happens. Why I can't run this program?
Your application works well. However, you haven't implemented an application loop:
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((400,400))
pygame.display.set_caption("My first game")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
# update game objects
# [...]
# clear display
win.fill((0, 0, 0))
# draw game objects
# [...]
# update display
pygame.display.flip()
# limit frames per second
clock.tick(60)
pygame.quit()
The typical PyGame application loop has to:
- handle the events by calling either
pygame.event.pump()
orpygame.event.get()
. - update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
- clear the entire display or draw the background
- draw the entire scene (
blit
all the objects) - update the display by calling either
pygame.display.update()
orpygame.display.flip()
- limit frames per second to limit CPU usage with
pygame.time.Clock.tick
repl.it/@Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop See also Event and application loop