A bit confused with blitting (Pygame)

Question

I\'ve just started learning some pygame (quite new to programming overall), and I have some very basic questions about how it works.

I haven\'t found a place yet th

Answer 1

Blit means 'BL'ock 'I'mage 'T'ranfser

When you are displaying things on the screen you will, in some way, use screen because that's where you are putting it.

When you do:

pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0, 0, 0), (100, 100), 15, 1)

you are still using screen but you are just not blitting because pygame is drawing it for you.

And when you use text, pygame renders it into an image then you have to blit it.

So basically you blit images, but you can also have pygame draw them for you. But remember when you blit an image, say over a background, you need to loop it back and fourth; so that it blits the background, then the image, then the background etc...

You dont need to know much more than that, but you can read all about it here Pygame Blit

I hope this helped. Good Luck!