Thanks a million Nathan (and everyone else who took a look at this), pygame.event.pump() solved the problem.
Much appreciate, mark On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Nathan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Mark S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having some trouble with the pygame display. While my program is > > running it will spend a chunk of time continually animating in a tight > loop. > > If during this time the window losses focus (I click on another window, > for > > example) the display will stop updating. The program continues running > and > > when it reaches the end of the animation loop it will wait for the user > to > > hit a key, at which point the display with begin updating again. > > I would try adding pygame.event.pump() calls within the tight > animation loop (once per frame maybe). That will allow pygame to > process windowing events during the animation. > -- > Nathan Whitehead >
