I've tried a few examples of pygame being used with controllers and they all seem to encounter the same issue, I can't figure out if I haven't installed pygame correctly or if im doing something else wrong.
import pygame
pygame.joystick.init()
for index in range(pygame.joystick.get_count()):
joystick = pygame.joystick.Joystick(index)
print(joystick) # <- does actually return a controller
while True:
pass # <- runs a few times and then stops
See PyGame window not responding after a few seconds. You have to handle the events in the application loop. See pygame.event.get() respectively pygame.event.pump():
For each frame of your game, you will need to make some sort of call to the event queue. This ensures your program can internally interact with the rest of the operating system.
e.g.:
while True:
pygame.event.pump()
or
run = True
while run:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
Related
This simple piece of code crashes (the window is not responding) after a few seconds (around 5).
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480), 0, 24)
#clock = pygame.time.Clock()
#font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)
cycles = 0
while True:
screen.fill(0)
# text = font.render('Cycles : %d' % cycles, True, (255, 255, 255))
# screen.blit(text, (100, 100))
cycles += 1
pygame.display.update()
If I uncomment the commented lines, I can clearly see the program going out of control when displaying values between 47 and 50.
I use python 2.7 and pygame 1.9.2, Windows 8 (64 bits) and Eclipse + PyDev.
Call pygame.event.get() at the beginning of the while loop.
You need to regularly make a call to one of four functions in the pygame.event module in order for pygame to internally interact with your OS. Otherwise the OS will think your game has crashed. So make sure you call one of these:
pygame.event.get() returns a list of all events currently in the event queue.
pygame.event.poll() returns a single event from the event queue or pygame.NOEVENT if the queue is empty.
pygame.event.wait() returns a single event from the event queue or waits until an event can be returned.
pygame.event.pump() allows pygame to handle internal actions. Useful when you don't want to handle events from the event queue.
The window does not respond (freeze), because you do not handle the events. You have to handle the events by either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get(), to keep the window responding.
See the documentation of pygame.event.pump():
For each frame of your game, you will need to make some sort of call to the event queue. This ensures your program can internally interact with the rest of the operating system.
Add an event loop, for instance:
run = True
while run:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
# [...]
Alternatively just pump the events:
while True:
pygame.event.pump()
# [...]
Minimal example: repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop
This simple piece of code crashes (the window is not responding) after a few seconds (around 5).
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480), 0, 24)
#clock = pygame.time.Clock()
#font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)
cycles = 0
while True:
screen.fill(0)
# text = font.render('Cycles : %d' % cycles, True, (255, 255, 255))
# screen.blit(text, (100, 100))
cycles += 1
pygame.display.update()
If I uncomment the commented lines, I can clearly see the program going out of control when displaying values between 47 and 50.
I use python 2.7 and pygame 1.9.2, Windows 8 (64 bits) and Eclipse + PyDev.
Call pygame.event.get() at the beginning of the while loop.
You need to regularly make a call to one of four functions in the pygame.event module in order for pygame to internally interact with your OS. Otherwise the OS will think your game has crashed. So make sure you call one of these:
pygame.event.get() returns a list of all events currently in the event queue.
pygame.event.poll() returns a single event from the event queue or pygame.NOEVENT if the queue is empty.
pygame.event.wait() returns a single event from the event queue or waits until an event can be returned.
pygame.event.pump() allows pygame to handle internal actions. Useful when you don't want to handle events from the event queue.
The window does not respond (freeze), because you do not handle the events. You have to handle the events by either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get(), to keep the window responding.
See the documentation of pygame.event.pump():
For each frame of your game, you will need to make some sort of call to the event queue. This ensures your program can internally interact with the rest of the operating system.
Add an event loop, for instance:
run = True
while run:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
# [...]
Alternatively just pump the events:
while True:
pygame.event.pump()
# [...]
Minimal example: repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop
This simple piece of code crashes (the window is not responding) after a few seconds (around 5).
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480), 0, 24)
#clock = pygame.time.Clock()
#font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)
cycles = 0
while True:
screen.fill(0)
# text = font.render('Cycles : %d' % cycles, True, (255, 255, 255))
# screen.blit(text, (100, 100))
cycles += 1
pygame.display.update()
If I uncomment the commented lines, I can clearly see the program going out of control when displaying values between 47 and 50.
I use python 2.7 and pygame 1.9.2, Windows 8 (64 bits) and Eclipse + PyDev.
Call pygame.event.get() at the beginning of the while loop.
You need to regularly make a call to one of four functions in the pygame.event module in order for pygame to internally interact with your OS. Otherwise the OS will think your game has crashed. So make sure you call one of these:
pygame.event.get() returns a list of all events currently in the event queue.
pygame.event.poll() returns a single event from the event queue or pygame.NOEVENT if the queue is empty.
pygame.event.wait() returns a single event from the event queue or waits until an event can be returned.
pygame.event.pump() allows pygame to handle internal actions. Useful when you don't want to handle events from the event queue.
The window does not respond (freeze), because you do not handle the events. You have to handle the events by either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get(), to keep the window responding.
See the documentation of pygame.event.pump():
For each frame of your game, you will need to make some sort of call to the event queue. This ensures your program can internally interact with the rest of the operating system.
Add an event loop, for instance:
run = True
while run:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
# [...]
Alternatively just pump the events:
while True:
pygame.event.pump()
# [...]
Minimal example: repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop
After a long time trying to install pygame for 2.7 it finally installs and I now have it downloaded, but there is now the problem that it keeps not responding after a couple seconds of being open. Any answer will be appreciated, the code that I have so far is just.
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((640,480))
so I need some help please.
So what you want to do, like what skrx said, is a while loop to continuously keep the code inside the while loop and the pygame window running, and as well as a for event loop, in order to be able to shut down the window. Here's how you can do it:
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)) # opens the display
while True: # the while loop that will keep your display up and running!
for event in pygame.event.get(): # the for event loop, keeping track of events,
if event.type == pygame.QUIT: # and in this case, it will be keeping track of pygame.QUIT, which is the X or the top right
pygame.quit() # stops pygame
There are other ways of stopping the while loop, and you could do this:
running = True
while running: # the while loop that will keep your display up and running!
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.quit()
Hope this helps!
This simple piece of code crashes (the window is not responding) after a few seconds (around 5).
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480), 0, 24)
#clock = pygame.time.Clock()
#font = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)
cycles = 0
while True:
screen.fill(0)
# text = font.render('Cycles : %d' % cycles, True, (255, 255, 255))
# screen.blit(text, (100, 100))
cycles += 1
pygame.display.update()
If I uncomment the commented lines, I can clearly see the program going out of control when displaying values between 47 and 50.
I use python 2.7 and pygame 1.9.2, Windows 8 (64 bits) and Eclipse + PyDev.
Call pygame.event.get() at the beginning of the while loop.
You need to regularly make a call to one of four functions in the pygame.event module in order for pygame to internally interact with your OS. Otherwise the OS will think your game has crashed. So make sure you call one of these:
pygame.event.get() returns a list of all events currently in the event queue.
pygame.event.poll() returns a single event from the event queue or pygame.NOEVENT if the queue is empty.
pygame.event.wait() returns a single event from the event queue or waits until an event can be returned.
pygame.event.pump() allows pygame to handle internal actions. Useful when you don't want to handle events from the event queue.
The window does not respond (freeze), because you do not handle the events. You have to handle the events by either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get(), to keep the window responding.
See the documentation of pygame.event.pump():
For each frame of your game, you will need to make some sort of call to the event queue. This ensures your program can internally interact with the rest of the operating system.
Add an event loop, for instance:
run = True
while run:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
# [...]
Alternatively just pump the events:
while True:
pygame.event.pump()
# [...]
Minimal example: repl.it/#Rabbid76/PyGame-MinimalApplicationLoop