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I have a game written with a Pygame loop and it currently draws everything happening in the pygame window. I now want to integrate this window into a larger PySimpleGUI window to have nice functionality around the game. Is this possible?

I tried to use the code from here. The problem is that I get an error like this which comes from VIDEODRIVER at line 25:

pygame.error: windib not available

I changed this to 'windows' but then the Pygame window is separated from the PySimpleGUI as a different window.

Can I make the pygame loop as a window INSIDE the PySimpleGUI? Thank you.

Eli
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It looks like the detached window is an open, unresolved issue with pygame 2.

If you're able to downgrade to pygame 1.9.6, the linked demo works as expected on Windows after changing the line 25 to: os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windows' as described.

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As said there,

This line only work on windows:

os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'

So make a code to skip it when the os is not Windows.

import platform
if platform.system == "Windows":
    os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'
superfred
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