window in pygame freeze while waiting

Question

I\'m using pygame for my game and its online but the problem is that whenever the main loop of the game waits for the socket from the server its freezes. so unless you are d

Answer 1

You must call pygame.event.pump() (which is implicitly called by pygame.event.get(), pygame.event.clear(), pygame.event.poll(), pygame.event.wait() or pygame.event.peek()) regularly in the thread that initialized the video subsystem (Pygame is built on SDL, hence the link to SDL documentation).

I would also suggest that you don't use pygame.event.pump() and instead handle all events properly with pygame.event.get() or pygame.event.poll(). More about this here.