Re: [pygame] help: problem with pygame.display.get_surface

[inhahe <inhahe@xxxxxxxxx>]

that works fine, thanks.

On 10/12/07, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> do you get what you want if you change the display resolution to match
> the window? (see below)
> ----
> import pygame
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600), pygame.RESIZABLE)
> while 1:
>    event = pygame.event.wait()
>    if event.type == pygame.VIDEORESIZE:
>      print event
>      screen = pygame.display.set_mode(event.size, pygame.RESIZABLE)
>      print pygame.display.get_surface()
>    if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
>       break
>
>
> On 10/12/07, inhahe <inhahe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm having a problem here.  I want to get a new surface when I resize
> > a window so that I have access to the entire window, if it's bigger.
> > So I figured screen = pygame.display.get_surface() is the way.  But
> > it's not working.  it's giving me a surface with the same dimensions
> > as the display before it's resized.  Here's some minimal code that
> > shows the problem:
> >
> > import pygame
> > screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600), pygame.RESIZABLE)
> > while 1:
> >     event = pygame.event.wait()
> >     if event.type == pygame.VIDEORESIZE:
> >       print event
> >       print pygame.display.get_surface()
> >
> >
> > the printout of event shows the new dimensions of the display, and
> > pygame.display.get_surface() is returning a surface with the old
> > dimensions.
> >
> > OS: Windows XP SP2
> > Python: 2.5.1
> > pygame: 1.7.1release
> >
> >
> > Is this a bug, or am I doing it wrong, and is there any other way to do this?
> >
>