"Ian Mallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to have two or more pygame windows running at the same time. > Can you do that?
One way to accomplish this would be to have two completely separate processes (not just threads), each running a separate python interpreter. The next challenge with this approach is to get the two processes to communicate with each other, but there are several solutions to this, including establishing a local network connection between the two processes, or using the filesystem to transfer data back and forth. (Google "Interprocess Communication" for other suggestions.) I've been considering what would be required to support multiple windows within a single process, including multiple fullscreen windows on a system that has more than one physical display device. One hurdle there is that the displays may not refresh at the same rate, so it seems to me that you don't want to have a single game loop, waiting for vblank - instead, probably, you'd want to have display threads independent of your game logic thread. But that's a deep change, and not something that is easily supported by the SDL foundation of PyGame, to my understanding. Does anybody have experience with this sort of thing? -Dave LeCompte
