Re: [pygame] event.get(), event.poll() only return keyup/keydown while mouse is moving

[luke p <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks

On 5/17/05, Patrick Chasco <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I found the problem - I was calling pygame.event.poll() in another
> module. Oops. Thanks for the response anyway.
> 
> I'm using double underscores so that the method is private. It's a
> member of a class, and the method is only to be called from the class
> itself. In my design there are several event sources, and only one of
> them is pygame. In the poll method I query each one of these sources and
> throw them all into the same queue. Thus engine.poll() calls
> engine.__poll_pygame, engine.__poll_net, and a few other event sources.
> 
> Here's more info on private class members:
> http://www.diveintopython.org/fileinfo_private.html
> 
> luke p wrote:
> 
> >are you calling __poll_pygame in a loop?  pygame.event.get() only gets
> >the currently queued keypresses, it doesn't just sit there getting
> >events.  You have to call it.  so maybe you are only calling
> >__poll_pygame when the mouse is moving or something of that sort.  By
> >the way, why are you using __'s for naming your functions? just
> >curious.
> >
> >On 5/17/05, Patrick Chasco <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm having a problem with event.get() and event.poll(). It seems that
> >>these two functions will only return KEYUP/KEYDOWN events while the
> >>mouse is moving over the pygame window, or moving at all while in
> >>fullscreen mode. event.wait() works as intended.
> >>
> >>Here's the code:
> >>[from engine.py]
> >>def __init_engine(self, mode, fullscreen):
> >>   pygame.init()
> >>   if fullscreen:
> >>       fullscreen = pygame.FULLSCREEN
> >>   self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode(mode, fullscreen)
> >>
> >>[from event.py]
> >>def __poll_pygame(self):
> >>   for e in pygame.event.get():
> >>       print e.type
> >>
> >>Anybody have any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
>