I figured it out, I needed to blit the background and do a pygame.update before the main loop. Now it works as it should. ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Mullen To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [pygame] Dirty Rect updating
Sounds like you are never updating the entire screen. If you NEVER update the entire screen, then the area outside where the sprites rect is will never be displayed with the background (and stay black). The background is a dirty rect too :) But without the real code you are using, it's not possible to tell if that's truly the problem. In the future please try to post the actual code that doesn't work, it helps to troubleshoot a lot.
