On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:01:32AM -0400, inhahe wrote: > hmm, I'm having a problem with this. when i maximize, the title bar > goes into the right place, etc., but the actual viewing space is a > little too far up. it stops, with no border, a few pixels above the > taskbar, and starts a few pixels above the title bar but behind it so > stuff is covered up by the title bar. is there any solution to this? > Does it work correctly when you click the maximize button manually? The call to SDL_Maximize() is equivalent.
To make resizing work you, you have to handle the Pygame VIDEORESIZE event and ultimately call pygame.display.set_mode() with the value of event.size. I sometimes find it all a bit tricky to get right, what with potentially having to recreate all your surfaces again, cheers, John. > On 10/14/07, John Popplewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:55:14AM +0000, Richard wrote: > > > How do I maximize the pygame window or start it maximized? not > > > fullscreen, just > > > maximized. by code, not by clicking on the maximize button. i can't > > > find a way > > > to do this. if there's really not a way to do it, that's kind of > > > disappointing. > > Hi, > > > > you can't using a built-in Pygame function. There is iconify() but no > > corresponding restore() or maximize(). It is a limitation of the > > underlying SDL library, which is being fixed in SDL-1.3 (or SDL-2). > > > > For now, I use the ctypes module to call the platform-specific > > functions: > > > > <snipped!> > > > > regards, > > John. > > > >
