tkinter and pygame do not want to work in one window

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I want to create an application and want to use tkinter as GUI and one of game libraries as Pyglet and Pygame. I didn't find any info about embedding pyglet into tkinter but found some code with tkinter and pygame: Embedding a Pygame window into a Tkinter or WxPython frame. I'm using python 3.7 and here is the code that I use:

import pygame
import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
import os


root = tk.Tk()
embed = tk.Frame(root, width=500, height=500)
embed.grid(columnspan=600, rowspan=500)
embed.pack(side=LEFT)
buttonwin = tk.Frame(root, width=75, height=500)
buttonwin.pack(side=LEFT)
os.environ['SDL_WINDOWID'] = str(embed.winfo_id())
os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 500))
screen.fill(pygame.Color(0, 255, 255))
pygame.display.init()
pygame.display.update()


def draw():
    pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0, 0, 0), (250, 250), 125)
    pygame.display.update()
    button1 = Button(buttonwin, text='Draw', command=draw)
    button1.pack(side=LEFT)
    root.update()


while True:
    pygame.display.update()
    root.update()

It creates 2 windows when I want to create only one. What is going wrong? Thanks!

I think the answer you linked was for python2. Why do you want to do this though, pygame is not too difficult to make guis in — Rolv Apneseth, Jan 15 '21 at 11:49
@RolvApneseth I have a reason to use only tkinter. There is a textbox in tkinter as I remember where you can highlight text and change its color — crackanddie, Jan 15 '21 at 11:51
I could not install pygame==1.9.6 using terminal and pycharm. Someone had the same problems: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50392215/installing-pygame-through-pycharm-or-system-terminal?rq=1. But it didn't help to me. So I am still trying to install it :) — crackanddie, Jan 15 '21 at 12:03
acw1668 is right, see https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/1574 — sloth, Jan 15 '21 at 12:04
@sloth and what should I do? :) I'm sorry but I really don't understand. The issue is still opened. I tried to install pygame 1.9.6 but only errors occur. I tried pythons 3.6.1, 3.7 and 3.9 and everywhere I couldn't install pygame 1.9.x — crackanddie, Jan 15 '21 at 12:30
What error when you try to install pygame 1.9.6? Better use Python 3.8 because 1.9.6 has no prebuilt package for Python 3.9. — acw1668, Jan 15 '21 at 12:59
@acw1668 EOFError occures. And why it's better to use 3.8 when I even tried 3.6 and 3.7? And I'm going to open new question on stackoverflow because it's another theme. — crackanddie, Jan 15 '21 at 14:40
How did you install pygame? It is strange to get `EOFError` if using `pip install -U pygame==1.9.6`. Using Python 3.6 and 3.7 is OK as long as there is pre-built package for the version. I have no problem on installing pygame 1.9.6 in my Python 3.8 under Windows 10. And the code works fine in my environment. — acw1668, Jan 15 '21 at 14:45
@acw1668 ok, I can try it on 3.8. I opened new question for the problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65738380/errors-occur-when-i-want-to-install-pygame-1-9-x-into-python-3 — crackanddie, Jan 15 '21 at 14:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '21 at 19:24

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Thanks to acw1668! Here you can download 1.9.6 pygame wheels: https://pypi.org/project/pygame/1.9.6/#files. And everything works fine with python 3.8!

answered Jan 15 '21 at 19:24

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