Re: [pygame] Minimizing hardware-accelerated application

[Rene Dudfield <illumen@yahoo.com>]

Heikki Salo wrote:

> I am making a little test program with pygame and I have noticed all the
> problems using hardware-acceleration. However, in my game using hardware
> significantly improves the performance so I would at least to keep it as an
> option.
>
> Here is where my problem occurs. When iconizing the application (in HW-mode)
> the pygame crashes and says that "pygame.error: Surface was lost". I believe
> that this is the normal behaviour and when losing/gaining focus the program
> should reaquire the old mode somehow. I have managed to use ACTIVEEVENT and
> "pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen()" so that it is ok to iconize the
> application, but when toggling back to fullscreen the program crashes with
> that surface lost-error. What is the "normal" thing to do in order to
> prevent those crashes? Any example would be nice.
>
>
>  
You could try pygame.display.quit(), then make a new display once you 
become unminimized.  As pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen() isn't cross 
platform anyway(only works on linux I think).