Center window of a Pygame Zero game

Question

I am using the easy-to-use Python library pgzero for programming games.

How can I center the game window? )It always opens at a random position...

import pgzrun

TITLE = "Hello World"

WIDTH  = 800
HEIGHT = 600

pgzrun.go()

Note: I am using the runtime helper lib pgzrun to make the game executable without an OS shell command... It implicitly imports the pgzero lib...

Edit: pgzero uses pygame internally, perhaps there is a way to center the window using the pygame API...

I have added an answer. Hope It will help you – GOVIND DIXIT Aug 16 '19 at 09:20 — GOVIND DIXIT, Aug 16 '19 at 09:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '19 at 09:19

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You can use os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED'] = '1'

This line of code tries to center your window the best it can.

Try this:

import pgzrun
import os

TITLE = "Hello World"

WIDTH  = 800
HEIGHT = 600

os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED'] = '1'
pgzrun.go()

answered Aug 16 '19 at 09:19

GOVIND DIXIT

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I have a problem using this command with my students that just download the latest version of pygames. `os.environ['SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED'] = '1'` Works for me I think because I running 1.9.6, but it doesn't work for any of my students that are running pygames 2.0.1. Is there a different syntax for this with the latest version of pygames? – Amy Brown Nov 04 '21 at 19:55

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