Pygame: Resizing a window

Pygame: Resizing a window

We already know how to create a game window using pygame. For creating a window, we use pygame.display. We set window size by setting the display mode in pygame. Now what if we want to make the window full screen? or we want to hide it, or resize it,
There are some meethods in pygame.display module

While setting the display mode, if we provide a third parameter, pygame.FULLSCREEN, we get a full screen window. For UNIX X11 driver there is one more function pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen() which works as switch between fullscreen mode and normal mode.


if you want to hide the window leaving only icon behind to get the access next time to the running window, use pygame.display.iconify() method.

A working example of all these functions, is in the following gist.

	import pygame
	from pygame.locals import *
	winWidth=600
	winHeight=480
	color_CYAN=(0,255,255)
	pygame.init()
	caption="Empty Game Window"
	pygame.display.set_caption(caption)
	Game_Window=pygame.display.set_mode((winWidth,winHeight),pygame.FULLSCREEN)
	Game_Window.fill(color_CYAN)
	while True:
	for event in pygame.event.get():
	if event.type==QUIT:
	pygame.quit()
	exit()
	if event.type==KEYDOWN:
	if event.key == K_ESCAPE:
	print(pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen())
	if pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen():
	Game_Window=pygame.display.set_mode((winWidth,winHeight))
	pygame.display.iconify()
	pygame.display.update()

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You might get confused that above script just gives an empty window that can be resizable but it works just the same as window with contents check out following gist

	import pygame
	import time
	from pygame.locals import *
	winWidth = 600
	winHeight = 480
	color_CYAN = (0, 255, 255)
	color_BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
	bkg_texture_str = "gameBkg.png"
	shipAnimFrames_str = ["ripple0.png", "ripple1.png", "ripple2.png", "ripple3.png", "ripple4.png"]
	clock = pygame.time.Clock()
	class Ship(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
	index = 0
	def __init__(self, texture, animFrames, x=0, y=0, width=1, height=1):
	super(Ship, self).__init__()
	self.image = texture
	self.animFrames = animFrames
	self.currentFrame = self.animFrames[0]
	self.x = x
	self.y = y
	self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
	self.width = self.rect.width
	self.height = self.rect.height
	def update(self):
	if self.isAnimating:
	self.animate()
	def draw(self, surface):
	surface.blit(self.currentFrame, (self.x-self.width, self.y-self.height*0.2))
	surface.blit(self.image, ((self.x), (self.y)))
	def startAnimation(self):
	self.isAnimating = True
	def animate(self):
	self.index += 1
	if self.index >= len(self.animFrames):
	self.index = 0
	self.currentFrame = self.animFrames[self.index]
	time.sleep(0.01)
	def stopAnimation(self):
	self.isAnimating = False
	if __name__ == "__main__":
	pygame.init()
	caption = "Sprite Animation Test"
	pygame.display.set_caption(caption)
	Game_Window = pygame.display.set_mode((winWidth, winHeight),pygame.FULLSCREEN)
	Game_Window.fill(color_CYAN)
	ship = pygame.image.load("ship.png").convert_alpha()
	pygame.display.set_icon(ship)
	bush = pygame.transform.scale((pygame.image.load("bush.png")), (50, 50))
	bushes = []
	shipAnimFrames = []
	i = 0
	while i < 5:
	bushes.append(bush.copy())
	i += 1
	i = 0
	while i < len(shipAnimFrames_str):
	shipAnimFrames.append((pygame.image.load(shipAnimFrames_str[i])))
	i += 1
	bkg_texture = pygame.transform.scale((pygame.image.load(bkg_texture_str)), (winWidth, winHeight))
	ShipSprite = Ship(ship, shipAnimFrames, winWidth*0.45, winHeight*0.75)
	ShipSprite.startAnimation()
	y = winHeight*0.7
	while True:#the game loop
	if y > 0:
	y -= 1
	for event in pygame.event.get():
	if event.type == QUIT:
	pygame.quit()
	exit()
	if event.type==KEYDOWN:
	if event.key == K_ESCAPE:
	print(pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen())
	if pygame.display.toggle_fullscreen():
	Game_Window=pygame.display.set_mode((winWidth,winHeight))
	pygame.display.iconify()
	ShipSprite.update()
	Game_Window.fill(color_CYAN)
	Game_Window.blit(bkg_texture, (0, 0))
	i = 0
	while i < len(bushes):
	if i % 2 == 0:
	Game_Window.blit(bushes[i], (winWidth*0.03, 50*i))
	else:
	Game_Window.blit(bushes[i], (winWidth*0.83, 50*i))
	i += 1
	ShipSprite.draw(Game_Window)
	clock.tick(60)
	pygame.display.flip()

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