Charles and Ian, Thanks very much for yr help. Indeed, I would have googled on the problem before putting it here, but it never occurred to me that I would get hits for so specific a question. I'm glad to be part of a community where lots of help is available for beginners. Hopefully I'll soon be able to be a giver here as well as a taker.
Regards, Tom -- Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. On 6/16/15, Charles Cossé <ccossegmail.com> wrote: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27644384/unable-to-use-create-graphics-screen-in-pygame > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:19 PM, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Greetings fellow pygame-istas, >> >> I'm having a problem working through an example in the tutorial: >> >> Help! How Do I Move An Image? >> >> At: >> >> http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/MoveIt.html >> >> in the section headed: >> >> Going From The List To The Screen >> >> there is this example: >> >> >>> background = [terrain1, terrain1, terrain2, terrain2, >> terrain2, terrain1] >> >>> screen = creategraphicsscreen() >> >>> for I in range(6): >> ... screen.blitbackgroundi], (i*10, 0)) >> >>> playerpos = 3 >> >>> screen.blitplayerimage, (playerpos*10, 0)) >> >> >> >> In the line: >> >> >>> screen = creategraphicsscreen() >> >> I can find no def for: >> >> creategraphicsscreen() >> >> Predictably the line gets: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> NameError: name 'creategraphicsscreen' is not defined >> >> I've studied the foregoing sections for a clue, but can find none. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, >> >> Tom Arnall >> >