Re: [pygame] Pygame runs faster when mouse is moved

[Kamilche <klachemin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Kamilche wrote:
> > I'm encountering an interesting artifact in my 'falling snow' routine. 
> > When I wave the mouse around, for no reason, the snow appears to fall 
> > faster.
>
> My guess is that you're taking a time step in your
> animation every time your get-events call wakes up.
> Moving the mouse generates mouse-movement events,
> each of which causes your animation to advance.
>
> The solution is to only take a time step when you
> get whatever event you've set up to fire when
> your frame timer expires. You can render at other
> times if you want, but only timer events should
> cause the animation to advance.

Yeah, it was something like that. The screen render loop was separate 
from the weather loop. I made the screen update loop fire off the 
weather loop, and only when there was a dirty rectangle on the screen.

--Kamilche