[Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

[Alberto Troiano]

Hey

I'm curious

What extension are you using on your game???????????
is it .py???????????????

And what OS are you running the game???????????????

Another thing. I made a space ship game to learn Python. Is there a 
possibility that we exchange the games so we can know differents points of 
view????????

I'll wait your reply

Regards

Alberto


>From: "D. Hartley" <denise.hartley at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: "D. Hartley" <denise.hartley at gmail.com>
>To: Python tutor <tutor at python.org>
>Subject: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and 
>graphics/gamewindow (high score)
>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:29:42 -0700
>
>Ok. I got in the working code to have a high score list, and it even
>saves/loads one now (!!).  The only problem is, clicking back from the
>text window to the game window (only after you entered in your name to
>go onto the high score list), closes the program. you dont get to say
>y/n to another game, it just shuts down. i cant run a debugger on it,
>because the error doesnt happen when I F5-run the game from the python
>IDLE script, only when i have ran it by doubleclicking on it (which is
>how you're supposed to run it. otherwise it doesnt shut down
>properly). i really really REALLY want to keep the high score part of
>my program, because i worked really hard to get this to work. but i
>have to have this program running with NO crashes in like a week (it's
>a birthday present, and the birthday is approaching fast!)
>
>Here's the "end of game" code:
>
>             #game over..
>             if lives == 0:
>### trying addscore
>
>                 def add_score():
>  #                   high_scores = [(1000,"Denise"), (945,"Denise"),
>   #                                 (883,"Denise"),(823,"Grant"),
>    #                                (779,"Aaron"), (702,"Pete"),
>     #                               (555,"Tom"), (443,"Tom"),
>      #                              (442,"Robin"), (4,"Pete")]
>                     high_scores = pickle.load(file("scores.pik"))
>                     score = total_enemy_hits
>                     if score > high_scores[-1][0]:
>                         print "Ta da! You got", total_enemy_hits,
>"Ranch Delivery Devices!"
>                         name = read_string("You made the high score
>list! What's your name? ")
>                         user_score = (score,name)
>                         high_scores.append(user_score)
>                         high_scores.sort(reverse=True)
>                         del high_scores[-1]
>                         pickle.dump(high_scores, file("scores.pik", "w"))
>                         for score, name in high_scores:
>                             slip = 30 - len(name)
>                             slip_amt = slip*" "
>                             prefix = 5*" "
>                             print prefix,name,slip_amt,score
>                     else:
>                         print "Sorry, you only got", total_enemy_hits,
>"Ranch Delivery Devices."
>                         print "You didn't quite make the high score list!"
>                         for score, name in high_scores:
>                             slip = 30 - len(name)
>                             slip_amt = slip*" "
>                             prefix = 5*" "
>                             print prefix,name,slip_amt,score
>                         print "Better luck next time!"
>
>  #               pdb.set_trace()
>                 add_score()
>
>                 end.play()
>                 showGameOver(screen, background_image)
>                 pygame.display.flip()
>
>
>                 answer = ""
>                 while not answer in ("y","n"):
>                    for event in pygame.event.get():
>                       if event.type == KEYDOWN:
>                          if event.key == K_n:
>                             answer = "n"
>                          elif event.key == K_y:
>                             answer = "y"
>                 if answer == "n":
>                     running = 0
>                 else:
>                     return 1
>
>             #refresh the display
>             pygame.event.pump()
>             pygame.display.flip()
>
>     #well, nice playing with you...
>     screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))
>     return 0
>
>
>Can anyone tell me why it crashes? you click to the text window when
>there's the "congrats, you made the high score list, enter your name"
>prompt, enter your name and hit enter, and it displays the high
>scores, with your name in it, just as it should. but then when you
>click back to the game screen, poof! it all closes.  Of course if you
>dont make the high score list, you can click to the text window and
>click back to the game window and it operates like it should.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated!!  Again, I'd like to have it do
>all this score stuff in the game/graphics window, and then it wouldnt
>have that crash at all. But I dont know how to do that.
>
>Please help!
>
>Thanks again :)
>
>~Denise
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