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How to get the X size of the screen in pygame? [duplicate]

I have created a window using
pygame.display.set_mode((width, height),
pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.RESIZABLE)
Later on in the app I want to be able to ask that window its width and height so I can decide how to process the mouse position.
How do I access the dimensions of that pygame window elsewhere in the program? (event processing loop)

You want to get the surface, then get the size from the surface object.
Using tuple unpacking:
w, h = pygame.display.get_surface().get_size()

You can get the windows size by first getting the display surface. pygame.display.get_surface(), then calling get_width() / get_height() on the surface.

Like this!
surface = pygame.display.get_surface() #get the surface of the current active display
x,y = size = surface.get_width(), surface.get_height()#create an array of surface.width and surface.height

import pygame as pg
def create_window(width, height):
"""create a width x height resizable window/frame"""
win = pg.display.set_mode((width, height), pg.RESIZABLE)
# optional fill bg red, default is black
win.fill((255, 0, 0))
# optional title info
sf = "size x=%s y=%s" % (width, height)
pg.display.set_caption(sf)
# any extra code here ...
# draw a white circle
white = (255, 255, 255)
# center can be fixed or calculated for resize
center = (150, 150)
radius = 100
pg.draw.circle(win, white, center, radius)
pg.display.flip()
return win
pg.init()
width = 300
height = 200
win = create_window(width, height)
# event loop and exit conditions (windows titlebar x click)
while True:
for event in pg.event.get():
if event.type == pg.VIDEORESIZE:
width, height = event.size
# redraw win in new size
win = create_window(width, height)
print(win.get_size()) # test
if event.type == pg.QUIT:
raise SystemExit
Try this out.
Hope it helps.

Adding another answer since I haven't seen this one yet.
screen = pygame.display.set_mode() # Default to screen resolution.
area = screen.get_rect()
We can call get_rect() on screen because it is a surface object. area will be a Rect object, with (0, 0, width, height) information in it.

changed = False
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit(0)
if event.type == pygame.VIDEORESIZE:
scrsize = event.size # or event.w, event.h
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(scrsize,RESIZABLE)
changed = True
it's almost exactly like this in the comments for pygame.display.init doc page https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html#comment_pygame_display_update
edited only slightly from 2011-01-25T23:10:35 - Dave Burton thanks dave

gameDisplay = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))
x=gameDisplay.get_width()
y=gameDisplay.get_height()

You can get the pygame.Surface object associated with the display with pygame.display.get_surface():
window_surface = pygame.display.get_surface()
Each Surface object can be asked for its with and height with get_width() respectively get_height():
window_width = pygame.display.get_surface().get_width()
window_height = pygame.display.get_surface().get_height()
get_size() returns a tuple with the width and height of the window:
window_width, window_height = pygame.display.get_surface().get_size()
get_rect() returns a rectangle the size of the window, always starting at (0, 0):
This can be used to get the center of the display:
window_center = pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect().center
It can even be used to limit the movement of an object to the window area:
object_rect = pygame.Rect(x, y, w, h)
object_rect.clamp_ip(pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect())
Minimal example:
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((200, 200))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
object_rect = pygame.Rect(pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect().center, (0, 0)).inflate(30, 30)
vel = 5
run = True
while run:
clock.tick(60)
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
print(pygame.key.name(event.key))
keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
object_rect.move_ip(
(keys[pygame.K_RIGHT] - keys[pygame.K_LEFT]) * vel,
(keys[pygame.K_DOWN] - keys[pygame.K_UP]) * vel)
object_rect.clamp_ip(pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect())
pygame.display.get_surface().fill([64] * 3)
pygame.draw.rect(pygame.display.get_surface(), (255, 0, 0), object_rect)
pygame.display.flip()
pygame.quit()
exit()

Pygame: Efficient way to call draw function in for loops [duplicate]

I was coded a simple pygame grid window. but pygame window start lag after that.
Here is that simple code👇
import pygame
import random
pygame.init()
pygame.font.init()
screen_width = 500
screen_height = screen_width
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((screen_width,screen_height))
pygame.display.set_caption("Snake GaMe By Akila")
def drawGrid():
grid_list = []
blockSize = 25
for x in range(screen_width):
for y in range(screen_height):
rect = pygame.Rect(x*blockSize, y*blockSize, blockSize, blockSize)
pygame.draw.rect(screen, (255,255,255), rect, 1)
running = True
while running:
screen.fill((0,0,0))
drawGrid()
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.display.update()
I was tried changing the call snippet of drawGrid() function position.

To improve the performance, do not construct the grind in every frame.
Create a pygame.Surface with the size of the window and draw the grid on this surface:
grid_surf = pygame.Surface((screen_width,screen_height))
drawGrid(grid_surf)
This surface is the back ground for your scene. blit it at the begin of every frame:
screen.blit(grid_surf, (0, 0))
Example code:
import pygame
import random
pygame.init()
pygame.font.init()
screen_width = 500
screen_height = screen_width
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((screen_width,screen_height))
pygame.display.set_caption("Snake GaMe By Akila")
def drawGrid(surf):
grid_list = []
blockSize = 25
for x in range(screen_width):
for y in range(screen_height):
rect = pygame.Rect(x*blockSize, y*blockSize, blockSize, blockSize)
pygame.draw.rect(surf, (255,255,255), rect, 1)
grid_surf = pygame.Surface((screen_width,screen_height))
drawGrid(grid_surf)
running = True
while running:
screen.blit(grid_surf, (0, 0))
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.display.update()

python pygame screen displays black

I am new to python and made an algorithm I would like to visualize on a screen with pygame. This is my code:
import pygame
pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 500))
pygame.display.set_caption("Test screen")
x = 50
y = 50
width = 40
height = 60
vel = 5
run = True
while run:
pygame.time.delay(100)
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
pygame.draw.rect(win, (255, 0, 0), (x, y, width, height))
pygame.display.update()
pygame.quit()
But this always displays a black or kinda dark gray screen. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I have tried multiple tutorials and they all give me the same screen.
I am using MacOS 10.14

You need to call the fill function on the win object. The background is always going to be black by default. The below example shows how to turn it to white.
import pygame
pygame.init()
win = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 500))
pygame.display.set_caption("Test screen")
x = 50
y = 50
width = 40
height = 60
vel = 5
run = True
while run:
pygame.time.delay(100)
## enter color here
win.fill((255,255,255))
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
pygame.draw.rect(win, (255, 0, 0), (x, y, width, height))
pygame.display.update()
pygame.quit()

why does my pygame load into a blank screen on mac?

For some reason when i run the code in netbeans i only get a blank screen
import pygame
import random
WIDTH = 480
HEIGHT = 600
FPS = 60
# define colours
WHITE = (255, 255, 255)
BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
RED = (255, 0, 0)
GREEN = (0, 255, 0)
BLUE = (0, 0, 255)
# initialize pygame and create window
pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption("My Game")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
class Player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
def __init__(self):
pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
self.image = pygame.Surface((40, 50))
self.image.fill(BLUE)
self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
self.rect.centerx = WIDTH / 2
self.rect.bottom = HEIGHT - 10
self.speedx = 0
def update(self):
self.rect.x += self.speedx
all_sprites = pygame.sprite.Group()
player = Player()
all_sprites.add(player)
# Game loop
running = True
while running:
# keep loop running at the right speed
clock.tick(FPS)
# Process input (events)
for event in pygame.event.get():
# check for closing window
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
# Update
all_sprites.update()
# Draw / render
screen.fill(BLACK)
all_sprites.draw(screen)
# *after* drawing everything, flip the display
pygame.display.flip()
pygame.quit()
please help me. when i run the code in netbeans it works but the screen where the game should be is blank, when i close the screen there is a frame of it in colour before it closes the window. I'm using OSX sierra

The sprites update and rendering calls are not being made in your while loop.
As pointed out in the comments, you need to indent the seven lines below # Update. Try this:
while running:
# keep loop running at the right speed
clock.tick(FPS)
# Process input (events)
for event in pygame.event.get():
# check for closing window
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
# Update
all_sprites.update()
# Draw / render
screen.fill(BLACK)
all_sprites.draw(screen)
# *after* drawing everything, flip the display
pygame.display.flip()
pygame.quit()

How do I get the size (width x height) of my pygame window

I have created a window using
pygame.display.set_mode((width, height),
pygame.OPENGL | pygame.DOUBLEBUF | pygame.RESIZABLE)
Later on in the app I want to be able to ask that window its width and height so I can decide how to process the mouse position.
How do I access the dimensions of that pygame window elsewhere in the program? (event processing loop)

You want to get the surface, then get the size from the surface object.
Using tuple unpacking:
w, h = pygame.display.get_surface().get_size()

You can get the windows size by first getting the display surface. pygame.display.get_surface(), then calling get_width() / get_height() on the surface.

Like this!
surface = pygame.display.get_surface() #get the surface of the current active display
x,y = size = surface.get_width(), surface.get_height()#create an array of surface.width and surface.height

import pygame as pg
def create_window(width, height):
"""create a width x height resizable window/frame"""
win = pg.display.set_mode((width, height), pg.RESIZABLE)
# optional fill bg red, default is black
win.fill((255, 0, 0))
# optional title info
sf = "size x=%s y=%s" % (width, height)
pg.display.set_caption(sf)
# any extra code here ...
# draw a white circle
white = (255, 255, 255)
# center can be fixed or calculated for resize
center = (150, 150)
radius = 100
pg.draw.circle(win, white, center, radius)
pg.display.flip()
return win
pg.init()
width = 300
height = 200
win = create_window(width, height)
# event loop and exit conditions (windows titlebar x click)
while True:
for event in pg.event.get():
if event.type == pg.VIDEORESIZE:
width, height = event.size
# redraw win in new size
win = create_window(width, height)
print(win.get_size()) # test
if event.type == pg.QUIT:
raise SystemExit
Try this out.
Hope it helps.

Adding another answer since I haven't seen this one yet.
screen = pygame.display.set_mode() # Default to screen resolution.
area = screen.get_rect()
We can call get_rect() on screen because it is a surface object. area will be a Rect object, with (0, 0, width, height) information in it.

changed = False
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit(0)
if event.type == pygame.VIDEORESIZE:
scrsize = event.size # or event.w, event.h
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(scrsize,RESIZABLE)
changed = True
it's almost exactly like this in the comments for pygame.display.init doc page https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html#comment_pygame_display_update
edited only slightly from 2011-01-25T23:10:35 - Dave Burton thanks dave

gameDisplay = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))
x=gameDisplay.get_width()
y=gameDisplay.get_height()

You can get the pygame.Surface object associated with the display with pygame.display.get_surface():
window_surface = pygame.display.get_surface()
Each Surface object can be asked for its with and height with get_width() respectively get_height():
window_width = pygame.display.get_surface().get_width()
window_height = pygame.display.get_surface().get_height()
get_size() returns a tuple with the width and height of the window:
window_width, window_height = pygame.display.get_surface().get_size()
get_rect() returns a rectangle the size of the window, always starting at (0, 0):
This can be used to get the center of the display:
window_center = pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect().center
It can even be used to limit the movement of an object to the window area:
object_rect = pygame.Rect(x, y, w, h)
object_rect.clamp_ip(pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect())
Minimal example:
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((200, 200))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
object_rect = pygame.Rect(pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect().center, (0, 0)).inflate(30, 30)
vel = 5
run = True
while run:
clock.tick(60)
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
print(pygame.key.name(event.key))
keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
object_rect.move_ip(
(keys[pygame.K_RIGHT] - keys[pygame.K_LEFT]) * vel,
(keys[pygame.K_DOWN] - keys[pygame.K_UP]) * vel)
object_rect.clamp_ip(pygame.display.get_surface().get_rect())
pygame.display.get_surface().fill([64] * 3)
pygame.draw.rect(pygame.display.get_surface(), (255, 0, 0), object_rect)
pygame.display.flip()
pygame.quit()
exit()