#🔒 Pygame toggle showing/hiding window

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rigid python
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I got a pygame app and I want it to not show up until a given button is pressed on the keyboard and when an other is pressed it hides it.
How could I achive this?

unreal bluffBOT
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golden moon
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You can achieve this functionality in a Pygame application by controlling the visibility of the window based on keyboard events. Here's an example code snippet that demonstrates how to do this:

import pygame
import sys

pygame.init()

Define colors

WHITE = (255, 255, 255)

Set up the Pygame window

window_size = (800, 600)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(window_size)
pygame.display.set_caption("Toggle Window Visibility")

Font for text

font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36)

Initial visibility flag

visible = False

Function to toggle visibility

def toggle_visibility():
global visible
visible = not visible
pygame.display.set_visible(visible)

Main loop

running = True
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE: # Press SPACE to toggle visibility
toggle_visibility()

# Clear the screen
screen.fill(WHITE)

# Display text
text = font.render("Press SPACE to toggle visibility", True, (0, 0, 0))
text_rect = text.get_rect(center=(window_size[0] // 2, window_size[1] // 2))
screen.blit(text, text_rect)

# Update the display
pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
In this code:

Pressing the SPACE key toggles the visibility of the Pygame window.
The window starts as invisible (pygame.display.set_visible(False)).
When SPACE is pressed, it becomes visible, and when pressed again, it becomes invisible.
You can customize the visibility toggling logic or add more features based on your requirements.

rigid python
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I think this is gpt isn't it?

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just because the isn't a set_visible() function on a pygame.display

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