how to save a screenshot in pygame?

2006-08-08 Thread liuliuliu
hi -- sorry if this is trivial -- but how do you make a screenshot of a pygame display? i have a surface which is basically the entire visible screen -- how do you write this surface as an image file during specific events in the script execution? image format doesnt matter. thanks! christine --

Re: 'error reading datastream' -- loading file only when transfer is complete?

2006-05-21 Thread liuliuliu
thanks all. this seemed to work: import os stat = os.stat(str(newFiles[index])) size1 = stat.st_size pygame.time.wait(100) stat = os.stat(str(newFiles[index])) size2 = stat.st_size

'error reading datastream' -- loading file only when transfer is complete?

2006-05-20 Thread liuliuliu
hello -- i'm running python/pygame on maemo (nokia 770). my situation is that i'm continually scouring this one directory for incoming files. if i see if there's a new file (coming in via wireless scp), i proceed to load it and process it. however, i think i am running into the issue that my

Re: 'error reading datastream' -- loading file only when transfer is complete?

2006-05-20 Thread liuliuliu
thanks - i'm looking, but i found this as well. actually, does this work? import os os.access(file, os.R_OK) # is it readable? is this valid: { i have my file identified } isFileAccessible = os.access(file, os.R_OK) while !isFileAccessible: isFileAccessible = os.access(file, os.R_OK) and