Paul, thanks for yr response. is there no other way to get image to stay?
regards, tom arnall -- Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. On 6/12/15, Paul Vincent Craven <p...@cravenfamily.com> wrote: > Well, the program was done so it quit. > > You need an event loop that keeps looping until you hit the quit button. > > http://programarcadegames.com/python_examples/f.php?file=simple_graphics_demo.py > > > Paul Vincent Craven > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:51 PM, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> The following creates a window on my screen, which disappears after >> about 1 second: >> >> import pygame, sys >> from pygame.locals import * >> >> # set up pygame >> pygame.init() >> >> # set up the window >> windowSurface = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 400), 0, 32) >> pygame.display.set_caption('Hello world!') >> >> >> >> I've tried it with two setups with the same result: python2.7 and >> python3.4. >> >> Before I put 3.4 on my system, it ran on python2.7 with what I expect >> is the correct behavior, i.e., the image persisted until I killed >> python. After installing 3.4 and pygame for 3.4, the current problem >> emerged. >> >> My OS is Debian Wheezy. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, >> >> Tom Arnall >> >> -- >> Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds >> within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. >> >
