I have literally no idea mate. Alls I know is that if you turn it off you remove some random crashes that can occur wiht screen reading technologies.
HTH On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Paul Craven <p...@cravenfamily.com> wrote: > What does the shadow window do? There's not much documentation there, > aside from "XXX Remove" > > On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 9:29:28 AM UTC-5, Chris Norman wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have never written tests for Pyglet, so please take whatever I say with >> a pinch of sault. I do however know that there is an option for not having >> the shadow window. I think it's pyglet.options['SHADOW_WINDOW'] = False. >> >> HTH, >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Paul Everitt <paulwe...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm a contributor to Arcade, the Python 3.6+ 2d game library. I'm >>> converting the existing doctests to pytest and trying to introduce some >>> faster unit testing. In particular, not firing up a GUI window on each test. >>> >>> I had hoped to make a MockWindow that I used to stub >>> pyglet.window.BaseWindow. The challenge: this line: >>> >>> from pyglet.window import Window >>> >>> ...immediately triggers a GUI window. Here are the last three lines in >>> pyglet.window.__init__.py: >>> >>> # XXX remove >>> # Create shadow window. (trickery is for circular import) >>> if not _is_pyglet_docgen: >>> pyglet.window = sys.modules[__name__] >>> gl._create_shadow_window() >>> >>> >>> The last line is done with non-import trickery that appears beyond the >>> reach of mocking. Thus, I'm interested in some feedback: >>> >>> - Am I totally on the wrong path, and unit testing a method on a >>> subclass of BaseWindow requires a window? >>> >>> - Should I refactor arcade.Window to subclass from something which >>> subclasses BaseWindow, to give me a place to step in? >>> >>> - Does anybody have a pyglet application with tests that don't spawn >>> windows? >>> >>> Thanks, and I confess that it is likely I am looking at this all wrong. >>> >>> --Paul >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "pyglet-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to pyglet-users...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to pyglet...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Take care, >> >> Chris Norman >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pyglet-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pyglet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pyglet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Take care, Chris Norman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyglet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pyglet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.