Pygame error: display surface quit: Why?

Question

Can anyone tell me why my app quits with:

pygame error: display Surface quit.

Answer 1

From http://archives.seul.org/pygame/users/Nov-2006/msg00236.html :

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:27 -0300, Nicolas Bischof wrote:

pygame.error: display Surface quit what does that mean?, i can't fix it

This means a call was made to pygame.display.quit() or pygame.quit(). If you try to do anything to the display surface after quit you will get this error.

Answer 2

I had this problem too, but got it from another origin.

I had a class defined like this:

class PauseMenu(pygame.Surface)

i got the error when forgetting to initialize the pygame.Surface and trying to blit it, making pygame.screen crash and gave me this error.

so i just added this obviously

pygame.Surface.__init__(self, (width, height))