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Re: [pygame] Fullscreen Display



Hi,

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:50:53PM +0000, Matt Smith wrote:
> 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

You need to import it, usually with

  from pygame.locals import *

near the top of your program.

> I expected the set_mode method to treat the FULLSCREEN as an argument and 
> not as a variable/ object.

That's not how Python works.

Cheers!
Marius Gedminas
-- 
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
                -- Norm Schryer

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