pygame basic question

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Dave Farrance <df at see.replyto.invalid> wrote:
> "ast" <nomail at invalid.com> wrote:
>
>>DISPLAYSURF = pygame.display.set_mode((400, 300))
>>pygame.display.set_caption('Hello World!')
>>
>>The first line opens a 400x300 pygame window.
>>The second one writes "Hello World" on top of it.
>>
>>I am just wondering how function set_caption finds the windows
>>since the window's name DISPLAYSURF  is not passed as
>>an argument
>
> https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html
>
> As it says, there is only *one* display surface, and any non-displayed
> surface must be blitted (copied) onto the display surface for
> visibility.  So all "pygame.display" methods refer to that one display
> surface.  Non displayed surfaces, on the other hand, do need to be
> instantiated with "pygame.Surface"

Also, note that the display surface DISPLAYSURF is not the window.
It's just a Surface object that pygame uses to paint the contents of
the window. AFAIK pygame maintains the actual window data structures
internally and does not expose them to the API.