Before I start, this is not a duplicate of How do you start Pygame window maximized?
I am on Linux which the win32gui and win32con libraries do not run on.
What I'm trying to do as stated by the title is maximize my pygame window when it is run. I do not want the game to be fullscreen by using the pygame.FULLSCREEN tag in pygame.display.set_mode(). I want it to be maximized.
My current way of getting it maximized is by creating the window with the pygame.RESIZEABLE flag which allows me to get the pygame.VIDEOEXPOSE event as shown in the example below.
import pygame, sys
SCREEN_WIDTH,SCREEN_HEIGHT = 1280,720
SCREEN = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT), pygame.RESIZABLE, 32, vsync=1)
objects = pygame.Surface((SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT))
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
if event.type == pygame.VIDEORESIZE:
SCREEN.blit(pygame.transform.scale(objects, event.dict['size']), (0, 0))
pygame.display.update()
elif event.type == pygame.VIDEOEXPOSE: # handles window minimising/maximising
SCREEN.fill((0, 0, 0))
SCREEN.blit(pygame.transform.scale(objects, SCREEN.get_size()), (0, 0))
pygame.display.update()
pygame.display.update()
The objects surface is simply a surface I draw my game objects to in order to scale them when the window is resized. If you're wondering why I'm not just setting the screen width and height to the size of the screen by getting it using system info is because that way my objects aren't scaled properly. The only way I've been able to get my objects scaled properly is by using the VIDEORESIZE and VIDEOEXPOSE events. If there is a way to automatically press the maximize button or just start maximized in pygame that would be great.
Just found this issue on the pygame github for anyone who needs this. Essentially just use the library that pygame uses to draw windows which is cross platform.
This is the code snippet on the issue which worked for me.
import sys
import pygame
import pygame._sdl2
import time
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 400), pygame.RESIZABLE)
window = pygame._sdl2.Window.from_display_module()
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
window.maximize()
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
screen.fill((255, 255, 255))
pygame.display.flip()
clock.tick(30)
I hope this helps anyone having similar issues.
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i have started a new project in python using pygame and for the background i want the bottom half filled with gray and the top black. i have used rect drawing in projects before but for some reason it seems to be broken? i don't know what i am doing wrong. the weirdest thing is that the result is different every time i run the program. sometimes there is only a black screen and sometimes a gray rectangle covers part of the screen, but never half of the screen.
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
You need to update the display.
You are actually drawing on a Surface object. If you draw on the Surface associated to the PyGame display, this is not immediately visible in the display. The changes become visibel, when the display is updated with either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip().
See pygame.display.flip():
This will update the contents of the entire display.
While pygame.display.flip() will update the contents of the entire display, pygame.display.update() allows updating only a portion of the screen to updated, instead of the entire area. pygame.display.update() is an optimized version of pygame.display.flip() for software displays, but doesn't work for hardware accelerated displays.
The typical PyGame application loop has to:
handle the events by calling either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get().
update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
clear the entire display or draw the background
draw the entire scene (draw all the objects)
update the display by calling either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip()
limit frames per second to limit CPU usage with pygame.time.Clock.tick
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY = pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
run = False
# clear display
DISPLAY.fill(0)
# draw scene
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
# update display
pygame.display.flip()
# limit frames per second
clock.tick(60)
pygame.quit()
exit()
repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop See also Event and application loop
simply change your code to:
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
pygame.display.flip() #Refreshing screen
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
it should help
i have started a new project in python using pygame and for the background i want the bottom half filled with gray and the top black. i have used rect drawing in projects before but for some reason it seems to be broken? i don't know what i am doing wrong. the weirdest thing is that the result is different every time i run the program. sometimes there is only a black screen and sometimes a gray rectangle covers part of the screen, but never half of the screen.
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
You need to update the display.
You are actually drawing on a Surface object. If you draw on the Surface associated to the PyGame display, this is not immediately visible in the display. The changes become visibel, when the display is updated with either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip().
See pygame.display.flip():
This will update the contents of the entire display.
While pygame.display.flip() will update the contents of the entire display, pygame.display.update() allows updating only a portion of the screen to updated, instead of the entire area. pygame.display.update() is an optimized version of pygame.display.flip() for software displays, but doesn't work for hardware accelerated displays.
The typical PyGame application loop has to:
handle the events by calling either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get().
update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
clear the entire display or draw the background
draw the entire scene (draw all the objects)
update the display by calling either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip()
limit frames per second to limit CPU usage with pygame.time.Clock.tick
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY = pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
run = False
# clear display
DISPLAY.fill(0)
# draw scene
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
# update display
pygame.display.flip()
# limit frames per second
clock.tick(60)
pygame.quit()
exit()
repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop See also Event and application loop
simply change your code to:
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
pygame.display.flip() #Refreshing screen
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
it should help
i have started a new project in python using pygame and for the background i want the bottom half filled with gray and the top black. i have used rect drawing in projects before but for some reason it seems to be broken? i don't know what i am doing wrong. the weirdest thing is that the result is different every time i run the program. sometimes there is only a black screen and sometimes a gray rectangle covers part of the screen, but never half of the screen.
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
You need to update the display.
You are actually drawing on a Surface object. If you draw on the Surface associated to the PyGame display, this is not immediately visible in the display. The changes become visibel, when the display is updated with either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip().
See pygame.display.flip():
This will update the contents of the entire display.
While pygame.display.flip() will update the contents of the entire display, pygame.display.update() allows updating only a portion of the screen to updated, instead of the entire area. pygame.display.update() is an optimized version of pygame.display.flip() for software displays, but doesn't work for hardware accelerated displays.
The typical PyGame application loop has to:
handle the events by calling either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get().
update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
clear the entire display or draw the background
draw the entire scene (draw all the objects)
update the display by calling either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip()
limit frames per second to limit CPU usage with pygame.time.Clock.tick
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY = pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
run = False
# clear display
DISPLAY.fill(0)
# draw scene
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
# update display
pygame.display.flip()
# limit frames per second
clock.tick(60)
pygame.quit()
exit()
repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop See also Event and application loop
simply change your code to:
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
pygame.display.flip() #Refreshing screen
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
it should help
i have started a new project in python using pygame and for the background i want the bottom half filled with gray and the top black. i have used rect drawing in projects before but for some reason it seems to be broken? i don't know what i am doing wrong. the weirdest thing is that the result is different every time i run the program. sometimes there is only a black screen and sometimes a gray rectangle covers part of the screen, but never half of the screen.
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
You need to update the display.
You are actually drawing on a Surface object. If you draw on the Surface associated to the PyGame display, this is not immediately visible in the display. The changes become visibel, when the display is updated with either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip().
See pygame.display.flip():
This will update the contents of the entire display.
While pygame.display.flip() will update the contents of the entire display, pygame.display.update() allows updating only a portion of the screen to updated, instead of the entire area. pygame.display.update() is an optimized version of pygame.display.flip() for software displays, but doesn't work for hardware accelerated displays.
The typical PyGame application loop has to:
handle the events by calling either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get().
update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
clear the entire display or draw the background
draw the entire scene (draw all the objects)
update the display by calling either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip()
limit frames per second to limit CPU usage with pygame.time.Clock.tick
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY = pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
run = False
# clear display
DISPLAY.fill(0)
# draw scene
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
# update display
pygame.display.flip()
# limit frames per second
clock.tick(60)
pygame.quit()
exit()
repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop See also Event and application loop
simply change your code to:
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
pygame.display.flip() #Refreshing screen
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
it should help
i have started a new project in python using pygame and for the background i want the bottom half filled with gray and the top black. i have used rect drawing in projects before but for some reason it seems to be broken? i don't know what i am doing wrong. the weirdest thing is that the result is different every time i run the program. sometimes there is only a black screen and sometimes a gray rectangle covers part of the screen, but never half of the screen.
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
You need to update the display.
You are actually drawing on a Surface object. If you draw on the Surface associated to the PyGame display, this is not immediately visible in the display. The changes become visibel, when the display is updated with either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip().
See pygame.display.flip():
This will update the contents of the entire display.
While pygame.display.flip() will update the contents of the entire display, pygame.display.update() allows updating only a portion of the screen to updated, instead of the entire area. pygame.display.update() is an optimized version of pygame.display.flip() for software displays, but doesn't work for hardware accelerated displays.
The typical PyGame application loop has to:
handle the events by calling either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get().
update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
clear the entire display or draw the background
draw the entire scene (draw all the objects)
update the display by calling either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip()
limit frames per second to limit CPU usage with pygame.time.Clock.tick
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY = pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
# handle events
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
run = False
# clear display
DISPLAY.fill(0)
# draw scene
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
# update display
pygame.display.flip()
# limit frames per second
clock.tick(60)
pygame.quit()
exit()
repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop See also Event and application loop
simply change your code to:
import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
DISPLAY=pygame.display.set_mode((800,800))
pygame.display.set_caption("thing")
pygame.draw.rect(DISPLAY, (200,200,200), pygame.Rect(0,400,800,400))
pygame.display.flip() #Refreshing screen
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
it should help