pythonpygameresolution

Get the screen resolution in Pygame

I have a pygame program, and I want it to be fullscreen using pygame.display.set_mode((width, height), pygame.FULLSCREEN).

I do not know the width and height (resolution) of the computer, so I want to be able to retrieve it on both macOS and Windows, using something like this for example:

import platform
pf = platform.platform().lower()
if pf.startswith("windows"):
    # code here
else:
    # code here

I tried this:

import pygame
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480), pygame.FULLSCREEN)
running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False
pygame.quit()
Solution

  • The set_mode can take a width and height of zero to force native resolution. So you can just do:

    screen = pygame.display.set_mode((0, 0), pygame.FULLSCREEN)

    Take a look at the docs here for more information: http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/display.html#pygame.display.set_mode