[2DZombie]

So I've been fiddling with pygame a tad, and have noticed that animated .gifs do not work, for obvious reasons. I was wondering what the work around this would be. Redrawing and re-flipping the surface is too ugly and affects more than just the image in mind. What would be a more elegant solution to this?

Thanks in advance.

[atraub]

So, are you saying that simply cycling between your image and a transparent image is not an option?

[2DZombie]

atraub, on 01 August 2011 - 06:50 PM, said:

So, are you saying that simply cycling between your image and a transparent image is not an option?

Well, it is, but I keep getting issues with proper timing between blinks. It's inconsistent and does not follow the specific pattern I want.

import pygame, sys


#Initiate pygame
pygame.init()
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

WHITE = (255, 255, 255)
BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
RED = (255, 0, 0)
GREEN = (0, 255, 0)

#Set up main menu window
window = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 800))
pygame.display.set_caption("Test")
window.fill(BLACK)
title = pygame.image.load('title.bmp')
start = pygame.image.load('enter.bmp')
blank = pygame.image.load('blank.bmp')
window.blit(title, (100, 200))
pygame.display.flip()


#Main menu loop
play = True
menu = True
while menu == True:
    clock.tick(10)

    #Blink image
    window.blit(start, (300, 450))
    pygame.display.flip()
    window.blit(blank, (300, 450))
    pygame.display.flip()


    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            play = False
            menu = False
        if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE:
                play = False
                menu = False
            if event.key == pygame.K_RETURN:
                menu = False

[atraub]

just for giggles, try changing your framerate to 40 (ie clock.tick) 10 milliseconds seems awfully fast, it could be that it's inconsistent because your machine has trouble keeping up.

[Motoma]

You'll want to perform only one flip per cycle:

...
show_image = False
while menu == True:
    clock.tick(10)

    #Blink image
    if show_image:
         window.blit(start, (300, 450))
         show_image = False
    else:
        window.blit(blank, (300, 450))
        show_image = True
    pygame.display.flip()
...

With your original code, successive calls to flip() were occasionally occurring before you hardware could refresh the screen, giving you choppy visuals. In practice, you will want to perform all bliting before calling flip() in order to avoid this issue.