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Re: [pygame] Doing the pygame shuffle on Windows.
Albeit, not a pygame solution, but have you tried http://www.stackless.com/ ?
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:10:03 -0800, Keith Nemitz <keithn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm working on a fullscreen game that at one point drops into window
> mode, launches another application, waits for it to finish, close,
> be-done, etc, and then pop the game back into fullscreen mode.
>
> The problem I'm having is, the game window refuses to pick up events
> after the other app is finished.
>
> I've tried:
> setting grab to 0 before launching and setting grab to 1 after the
> other app quits.
> getting the current window before launching and setting it as the
> active window after the other app quits. (from c++).
> using toggle_fullscreen, and using display.set_mode
> various combinations of the above
> searching the internet and this list for clues, without luck.
>
> All that I can thing of otherwise is to quit pygame and re-init it,
> which would cost a of work to the rest of the game. Funny thing is, on
> the Macintosh version, I couldn't stop the events from going to the
> game window... sigh. (fixed that eventually)
>
> Perhaps someone here can enlighten me? Please, I'm out of ideas.
>
> I'll post my current code in my next email, should this problem find
> some interest from the pygame community.
>
> Keith Nemitz
> Mousechief Co.
>
>
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