How to Fullscreen pygame

Pygame is a popular library for developing games and multimedia applications using the Python programming language. To fullscreen a Pygame application, you can follow the following steps:

Import the necessary modules:

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

Initialize Pygame and create a screen surface:

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600), FULLSCREEN)

In the above code, we set the screen size to (800, 600) and pass the FULLSCREEN flag to the set_mode() function.

Handle the events and implement the game loop:

running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == QUIT:
            running = False
        elif event.type == KEYDOWN and event.key == K_ESCAPE:
            running = False

    # Other game logic and rendering code here

    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()

The code snippet above creates a basic game loop that handles quit events and keyboard events (escape key) to exit the fullscreen mode.

Please note that Pygame's fullscreen mode can behave differently on different platforms and hardware configurations. Some platforms may not support hardware acceleration in fullscreen mode, resulting in decreased performance. It is also essential to handle screen resolution changes gracefully to prevent issues when switching in and out of fullscreen mode.

For further reference, you can check the official documentation and examples provided by Pygame: Pygame Documentation