Re: [pygame] interactive pygame?

["R. Alan Monroe" <amonroe@columbus.rr.com>]

> your other problem is with moving, raising, and minimizing. the problem
> is these happen in the same thread as the interactive python. so while 
> the prompt is sitting there, pygame can't do anything with the window. 
> all the actions you have taken are sitting inside the system event 
> queue, but pygame/SDL need a chance to go receive those events and 
> process them.

> calling pygame.event.pump() will tell pygame and SDL to handle the 
> windows events. you could also call any of the other pygame.event 
> functions which effect the pygame event queue.

> the pump() function will return pretty quick, but any window 
> interactions you have made will all happen very quick. you will have to 
> call pump() anytime you do something to the window for it to react.

Cool. Can you do something really perverse like spawn a new thread to
do the pumping in the background every 1 second? :^)

Alan