On 20 January 2012 20:47, Yigit Turgut <y.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In the following code, I am trying to run "black" screen for 3 seconds > and respectively 2 seconds "white" screen. Black routine takes 3 > seconds and white 2 seconds, 2 x black + white = 8 seconds which > should be the expected value but when I run it I get black-white-black- > white instead of black-white-black. Couldn't figure out what is > wrong thus sharing the code as well ; > > white = False > while(end<8.00): > end = time.time() - start > if white: > screen.fill((255, 255, 255)) > time.sleep(2) > else: > screen.fill((0, 0, 0)) > time.sleep(3) > white = not white > pygame.display.update() > pygame.quit()
This is cryptic. You'd be better off with something like black = 0, 0, 0 white = 255, 255, 255 for color, wait in (black, 3), (white, 2), (black, 3): screen.fill(color) pygame.display.update() time.sleep(wait) pygame.quit() -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list