I use dummy in the following project and it worked. There may be something other than that one line that needs to be sorted.
http://winkleink.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/raspberry-pi-unipolar-stepper-motors.html On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 at 08:03, Bert Haverkamp <b...@bertenselena.net> wrote: > Hello all, > > Maybe it has been asked before. But I only see older posts on this topic. > I'm hoping the situation has changed now. > I'm trying to make a game where there is no screen needed, but physical > actuators (motors, steppers, a beeper) > > But without a screen defined, I cannot seem to get events to work properly > In particular cannot use the keydown and keyup events. The events don't > seem to happen. > > I read somewhere that I should use the dummy screen with > > os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'dummy' > > > But this also doesn't seem to help. > Is there a way to get the events functioning without a screen? If so, how. > If not, would that be an possible addition in a future version? > > Regards, > > Bert >
