How to open a Pygame window and a Tkinter window simultaneously?

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I'm making a simple game using the Pygame Module. I require a Tkinter window to be open alongside the Pygame window.

Whenever I try to open both the windows, the second window only opens after I kill the first one.

Now, the only solution I can think of, is using multi-threading. But, I'm not able to implement it.

How do I go about this? I would really appreciate some help here. Thank You!

mousetail · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-16 08:50:20Z

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There is a fundamental design issue in pygame that makes it unable to open a window if the process already has a window. It will also prevent other windows from opening while it is running. However, you can open as many TK windows as you like and you can embed a pygame window inside a SDL drawing frame inside a TK window.

See this answer on how to use the drawing frame: Embedding a Pygame window into a Tkinter or WxPython frame

See this answer on how to create multiple windows in tkinter: How to open multiple windows in Tkinter

answered Sep 16, 2020 at 8:50

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NotMyName Over a year ago

I was able get what I wanted by setting the Tkinter frame-width = 0. Now it is pretty much like a Pygame Window and I can open multiple Tkinter Windows. Really Helpful!

NotMyName Over a year ago

I just have a question, I'm printing the values of the mouse position using pygame.mouse.get_pos() . But now the mouse position values do not update as I move it. It worked perfectly fine before embedding the Pygame window into a Tkinter window. But now, I have to click, only then I start getting the new position values(the place where I clicked)

mousetail Over a year ago

I'm sorry I wouldn't know. It might be that the event system does not work by default in embedded windows, and you will need to detect events in tkinter and forward them to pygame with pygame.event.post()

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