Why does pygame come up black for me?

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I just installed python and Pygame, so I know it's not an issue with it being outdated. But every time I try to run the code's on the pygame website, it comes up black. When I try to close the screen, a window opens up saying it's not working and in order to fully close it I have to close Python directly.
Is it my computer? Or am I just stupid?

What I have tried:

Python

# Example file showing a basic pygame "game loop"
import pygame

# pygame setup
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1280, 720))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
running = True

while running:
    # poll for events
    # pygame.QUIT event means the user clicked X to close your window
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    # fill the screen with a color to wipe away anything from last frame
    screen.fill("purple")

    # RENDER YOUR GAME HERE

    # flip() the display to put your work on screen
    pygame.display.flip()

    clock.tick(60)  # limits FPS to 60

pygame.quit()

Posted 27-Jul-23 2:31am

Jahtavia Robinson

Updated 28-Jul-23 5:13am

OriginalGriff

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2023-07-27T03:35:00

Solution 1

Probably because you haven't put any code in the section marked:

Python

# RENDER YOUR GAME HERE

With no code there, there is nothing to show, so it sits waiting for the user to get bored and go away ...

Posted 27-Jul-23 3:35am

OriginalGriff

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Andre Oosthuizen 28-Jul-23 10:59am

:)

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2023-07-27T03:41:00

Solution 2

You need to understand infinite loops; see The Python Tutorial — Python 3.10.12 documentation[^].

Posted 27-Jul-23 3:41am

Richard MacCutchan

Andre Oosthuizen · Answer 3 · 2023-07-28T05:13:00

The 'screen.fill()' method in pygame expects a color in the form of an RGB tuple (Red, Green, Blue) or an integer value representing a color. However, you are passing a string ("purple") instead, which is causing the problem - Introduction to Pygame - Drawing a background [^]

You can also see - How to change screen background color in Pygame?[^].

You can use a RGB Color Picker found at - HTML Color Picker [^]

Your code should thus be -

Python

#OLD CODE - fill the screen with a color to wipe away anything from last frame
    screen.fill("purple")

#NEW CODE - fill the screen with a color to wipe away anything from last frame
    screen.fill((128, 0, 128))#Purple as you can get it...