image loading

Cody on 2011/04/03 03:23

I am trying to get an image to load but it an error come up whenever I try. the error is "pygame.error: Couldn't open data\menu.bmp" This is my code:

import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
Surface = pygame.display.set_mode((600, 450), 0, 32)
menuimage = pygame.image.load("data\\menu.bmp")
menu = pygame.image.load(menuimage)
Surface.blit(menu, (50, 50))

how can I get it to work?

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ArmchairArmada on 2011/04/03 03:32:

I'm not 100% certain what the problem is, but I can make a few recommendations.  I usually use PNG for images; maybe PyGame doesn't like bitmaps?  Also I think Skellington has a function to help with file paths; you could try using that.

Something I just noticed while looking at your code.  You seem to be loading an image into 'menuimage' then trying to use that menuimage surface to load 'menu'.  I don't think you meant to do that as menuimage would not be a file path.

blakeohare on 2011/04/03 06:33:

Also, be sure to not use \ as the folder delimiter as this will not work for linux/mac users. Use os.sep instead. 

superjoe on 2011/04/03 06:40:

*os.path.sep

Cosmologicon on 2011/04/03 07:41:

The slightly more readable way is to say os.path.join("data", "menu.bmp") instead.

blakeohare on 2011/04/03 20:17:

Both os.sep and os.path.sep are valid. os.path.join works, too. 

nitrofurano on 2011/04/03 21:09:

Cody, please avoid bmp, it's an useless picture format...

superjoe on 2011/04/03 23:54:

My bad, blakeohare - I didn't realize!