Can I move the pygame game window around the screen (pygame)

Question

In the game I am making, I try to move the window around the screen for a mini-game (don't ask), and I tried what I saw my own threads and found only 1

x = 100 y = 0 import os os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS'] = "%d,%d" % (x,y) import pygame pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((100,100)) # wait for a while to show the window. import time time.sleep(2) 

and it doesn’t work (keep in mind that I am not super experienced and currently code as a hobby)

Answer 1

Check out the code below. I kind of combined two different answers, but it seems that it will be quite difficult without using Tkinter. Fortunately, I don’t think Tkinter will complicate your application too much (it seemed very easy to work here).

 # Moving a pygame window with Tkinter. # Used code from: # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8584272/using-pygame-features-in-tkinter # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31797063/how-to-move-the-entire-window-to-a-place-on-the-screen-tkinter-python3 import tkinter as tk import os, random w, h = 400, 500 # Tkinter Stuffs root = tk.Tk() embed = tk.Frame(root, width=w, height=h) embed.pack() os.environ['SDL_WINDOWID'] = str(embed.winfo_id()) os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib' # This was needed to work on my windows machine. root.update() # Pygame Stuffs import pygame pygame.display.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((w, h)) # This just gets the size of your screen (assuming the screen isn't affected by display scaling). screen_full_size = pygame.display.list_modes()[0] # Basic Pygame loop done = False while not done: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.QUIT: done = True if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN: if event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE: done = True if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE: # Press space to move the window to a random location. r_w = random.randint(0, screen_full_size[0]) r_h = random.randint(0, screen_full_size[1]) root.geometry("+"+str(r_w)+"+"+str(r_h)) # Set to green just so we know when it is finished loading. screen.fill((0, 220, 0)) pygame.display.flip() root.update() pygame.quit() root.destroy() 

Answer 2

I found a way to do this without using tkinter .

If you resize the display, it will move to os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS'] .

 x=100 y=0 import os os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS'] = '%d,%d' % (x,y) #create a display import pygame pygame.init() screen=pygame.display.set_mode((100,100)) #wait before moving the display import time time.sleep(2) #set where the display will move to x=200 y=200 os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS']='%d,%d' %(x,y) #resize the screen causing it to move to xy set by environ pygame.display.set_mode((101,100)) #set the size back to normal pygame.display.set_mode((100,100))