Image doesn't show up in window

Asked Sep 22 '17 at 15:56

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When I run the following, according to the "Rapid Game Development in Python"-tutorial by Richard Jones:

>>> import pygame
>>> from pygame.locals import *
>>> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1024,768),DOUBLEBUF)
>>> pygame.display.flip()
>>> car = pygame.image.load('pics/car.png')
>>> car
<Surface(501x737x32 SW)>
>>> screen.blit(car, (50,100))
<rect(50, 100, 501, 668)>
>>> pygame.display.flip()
>>> car
<Surface(501x737x32 SW)>
>>> car==None
False

No image is being displayed on my window. I can not figure out why as I've only followed the instructions.

I'm on Mac OSX with python 3.6.2, I've installed pygame with pip.

EDIT: I ran >>> pygame.display.update() and it still doesn't display.

edited Sep 22 '17 at 16:06

asked Sep 22 '17 at 15:56

Sahand

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can you check if car is empty? (like if car == None ..) – Kev1n91 Sep 22 '17 at 15:59
I've appended it to the terminal print now. – Sahand Sep 22 '17 at 16:00
Try changing flip to update. – MegaIng Sep 22 '17 at 16:05
@MegaIng, see my edit – Sahand Sep 22 '17 at 16:06
I shall add that the window seems to be perpetually frozen, so when I hover my mouse over it, it turns into a colorwheel. – Sahand Sep 22 '17 at 16:09
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The window is probably frozen due to the fact you are not clearing events from pygame's event queue. You should try calling `pygame.event.get()` within a loop, and then handle each of those events (such as closing the window, resizing, mouse/keyboard input, etc). – CodeSurgeon Sep 23 '17 at 08:44

Image doesn't show up in window

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