How to put limits on resizing a window in pygame

Question

I have a window in pygame set up like this: screen = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOWWIDTH, WINDOWHEIGHT),pygame.RESIZABLE)

As you can see, it is resizab

Answer 1

You can use the pygame.VIDEORESIZE event to check the new windows size on a resize. What you do is on the event, you check the new windows size values, correct them according to your limits and then recreate the screen object with those values.

Here is a basic script:

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,480), HWSURFACE|DOUBLEBUF|RESIZABLE)
while True:
    pygame.event.pump()
    event = pygame.event.wait()
    if event.type == QUIT: pygame.display.quit()
    else if event.type == VIDEORESIZE:
        width, height = event.size
        if width < 600:
            width = 600
        if height < 400:
            height = 400
        screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width,height), HWSURFACE|DOUBLEBUF|RESIZABLE)

EDIT: Depending on how your game graphics are drawn, you may want to resize them according to the windows resize (haven't tested that, just going after this example: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/WindowResizing)