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Re: pygame basic question

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On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> wrote:
> "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>>DISPLAYSURF = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 300))
>>pygame.display.set_caption('Hello World!')
>>
>>The first line opens a 400x300 pygame window.
>>The second one writes "Hello World" on top of it.
>>
>>I am just wondering how function set_caption finds the windows
>>since the window's name DISPLAYSURF  is not passed as
>>an argument
>
> https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html
>
> As it says, there is only *one* display surface, and any non-displayed
> surface must be blitted (copied) onto the display surface for
> visibility.  So all "pygame.display" methods refer to that one display
> surface.  Non displayed surfaces, on the other hand, do need to be
> instantiated with "pygame.Surface"

Also, note that the display surface DISPLAYSURF is not the window.
It's just a Surface object that pygame uses to paint the contents of
the window. AFAIK pygame maintains the actual window data structures
internally and does not expose them to the API.

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pygame basic question "ast" <nomail@invalid.com> - 2015-09-08 11:33 +0200
  Re: pygame basic question Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-08 12:14 +0200
  Re: pygame basic question Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 12:03 +0100
  Re: pygame basic question Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> - 2015-09-08 15:01 +0100
    Re: pygame basic question Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 08:12 -0600

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