Re: [pygame] Nasty crash running sound.py then stars.py

["John Popplewell" <john@johnnypops.demon.co.uk>]

Hi Pete,

> still, i never saw the problems you were experiencing. i guess i
> unsafely assumed everything was "ok" from that. i'll get things
> smartened up here right away.

it only happens on one of my four test machines, so the problem
is rare - I initially assumed it was a problem with the
machine - trashed windows or python install, or corrupted drivers
but the problem seems to be real, if relatively uncommon.

[Something about many eyeballs and lots of hardware configurations!]

> i believe the biggest problem here is the fact that the quit time
> cleanup registering was moved to the "pygame.init()" function, so
> without calling that, things obviously didn't get cleaned up.

Sounds like you have things under control - good luck,

cheers,
John.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Shinners" <shredwheat@mediaone.net>
To: <pygame-users@seul.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [pygame] Nasty crash running sound.py then stars.py


> John Popplewell wrote:
> > Recently upgraded to pygame-1.4 and decided to run through the examples.
> > All went fine until I ran "sound.py" followed by "stars.py" which
> > produced this :
>
> john, wow, looking over the code here. this is a big problem.
> there is a specific reason it was moved though. SDL now has pretty good
> support for running in an embedded window. for this to work properly the
> program must "hack" some environment variables before there is any sort
> of intiialization going on.
>
> i can get this fixed by getting most of that initialization stuff back
> into the module init time, which really is a better place for it anyways.
>
> i believe the biggest problem here is the fact that the quit time
> cleanup registering was moved to the "pygame.init()" function, so
> without calling that, things obviously didn't get cleaned up.
>
> still, i never saw the problems you were experiencing. i guess i
> unsafely assumed everything was "ok" from that. i'll get things
> smartened up here right away.
>
>
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