Re: [pygame] Fullscreen Display

[Casey Duncan <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Matt Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have seen the following line used to initialise a full screen  
> display in a number of books and tutorials:
>
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((xsize, ysize), FULLSCREEN, 32)
>
> When I use it in my program then I get the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "bouncing_ball_OOP.py", line 63, in <module>
>     screen = pygame.display.set_mode((xsize, ysize), FULLSCREEN, 32)
> NameError: name 'FULLSCREEN' is not defined
>
> I expected the set_mode method to treat the FULLSCREEN as an  
> argument and not as a variable/ object. I can use the following  
> line without a problem to initialise a windowed display for my  
> program:
>
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((xsize, ysize), 0, 32)
>
> Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

You need to import the name FULLSCREEN into your namespace, or prefix  
your reference to it with the pygame module like so:

pygame.FULLSCREEN

to import it directly, use:

from pygame.locals import *

the latter makes it a less clear where the name comes from, however  
with the benefit of increased brevity.

-Casey