[pygame] Very simple program fails. Why?

[Lee Harr]

On 2005-04-26, Brent W. Hughes <brent.hughes at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm just starting to learn pygame.  I write what I think is just about the 
> simplest program that should display a window and then quit.
> #-----------------------------------------------
> import sys
> import time
> import pygame
>
> pygame.init()
> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,480))
> pygame.display.set_caption("A Bug's Life")
> time.sleep(4)
> #-----------------------------------------------
> When I run this program from within PythonWin, the Bug's Life window appears 
> and everything looks okay, but after 4 seconds the window still persists. 
> When I finally close it using the close box in the upper right of the 
> window, a box pops up telling me an error occurred ant it wants to send a 
> report to Microsoft.  I click "Don't send" and another box pops up telling 
> me that the program was trying to access memory location 0x1c.
>
> If I try to run the program stand-alone (outside of PythonWin), a DOS box 
> pops up for a second or two, then the Bug's Life window flashes up for a 
> fraction of a second, and then both windows disappear.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>


Works perfectly for me on Linux, but that does not help
you much...  If no one helps you out further here, make
your way over to the pygame mailing list. Someone will
be able to spot the problem:
http://pygame.org/info.shtml#maillist