Re: [pygame] broken links, event handling vs "getting directly" and screen refresh

[Bob Ippolito <bob@threeoh.com>]

More likely than not, your problem with the 'subprocess' is due to the 
fact that the runloop for your 'main process' is totally stopped while 
its executing.  You will need to use threading, forking, or having the 
subprocess itself calling the redraw stuff when necessary.

-bob

On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 10:41 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> 1) All the "Tutorial/Introduction" links on the documentation page
> (http://pygame.org/docs/index.html) are broken.
>
> 2) In http://pygame.org/docs/tut/newbieguide.html, it says that using
> the event system isn't always the best way to go.  In my case, it's ok
> if I miss a mouse click once in a while, but I don't want latency
> creeping in, so I initially decided to avoid the event system.  However,
> I'm noticing that if I obscure my game window with another briefly, I
> don't get window refresh until I redraw the whole window.  Would this
> problem be easier to solve if I were using the event system?  That is,
> is there a "time to redraw the whole screen now" event?  Or is it "just
> taken care of somehow"?  I'd kind of like it if something remembered
> what the screen looked like and repainted it for me, so I don't have to
> talk to my subprocess asynchronously.
>
> Thanks for the great software, and thanks (I hope) for answering #2.
>
> --
> Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS
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