Just to follow up -- just *after* emailing the list, I went and looked at the SDL sources directly and noticed the asymmetry noted by Brian. There are SDL_ShowWindow(win)and SDL_HideWindow(win) fn's which could work, but they're not wrapped and I ran into some problems trying to quickly test them via ctypes.
For now, I settled on something hacky like set_mode((1,1)), which effectively hides the window (it's a frameless window positioned in a corner). Thanks, /jamie On 07/01/11 18:59, Brian Fisher wrote:
You're not missing anything obvious. There is no method to de-iconify, because the underlying SDL library had no method to de-iconify. I think the reason for that may be that there weren't programmatic de-iconify methods on all platforms - the operating system window managers usually don't want apps to be able to activate themselves and steal focus, because it's generally considered bad form and annoying to the user if apps do that. You might be able to get this going with ctypes calling platform specific stuff withyour window handle from the pygame.display.get_wm_info() function I think windows has a deiconify call (ShowWindow with the correct SW_ flag), but I think it only works if your window is already active, otherwise it makes your bar blink blue or something - basically it just lets you politely ask to be un-minimized - the user must be the one to actually un-minimize the app. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:20 PM, James Mazer <james.ma...@yale.edu <mailto:james.ma...@yale.edu>> wrote: I think I must be missing something obvious, but years of pygame programming and an hour of googling and I still can't figure out the inverse of pygame.display.iconify()... Is there a way to *deiconify* the pygame window without doing something ugly like calling quit() and set_mode() again? Thanks, /jamie -- James Mazer Department of Neurobiology Yale School of Medicine phone: 203-737-5853 <tel:203-737-5853> fax: 203-785-5263 <tel:203-785-5263>
-- James Mazer Department of Neurobiology Yale School of Medicine phone: 203-737-5853 fax: 203-785-5263
