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Re: [pygame] Display Update Trouble After Focus Loss



On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Mark S <slygroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with the pygame display.  While my program is
> running it will spend a chunk of time continually animating in a tight loop.
>  If during this time the window losses focus (I click on another window, for
> example) the display will stop updating. The program continues running and
> when it reaches the end of the animation loop it will wait for the user to
> hit a key, at which point the display with begin updating again.

I would try adding pygame.event.pump() calls within the tight
animation loop (once per frame maybe).  That will allow pygame to
process windowing events during the animation.
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Nathan Whitehead