How to Track Mouse Movement in Pygame

In this Pygame article we want to learn How to Track Mouse Movement in Pygame, in Pygame tracking mouse movement is an important feature for many games and applications. in this article we want to talk about this concept in Pygame.

 

 

This is the complete code for this article

 

 

 

First we need to import Pygame and initialize it. this will allow us to create a display surface and listen for mouse events.

 

 

After that we need to create a display surface on which is used for tracking mouse movement. Pygame provides display module that we can use to create display surface.

 

 

Pygame provides an event system that allows us to listen for mouse events. we can use this system to track mouse movement. 

 

 

Now that we have tracked the mouse position, we can use it to do something in our game or application. for example, we want that the mouse position to move a player character or to detect if the mouse cursor is over a particular object.

 

 

 

Run your code and this will be the output

How to Track Mouse Movement in Pygame
How to Track Mouse Movement in Pygame

 

 

So in this blog post, we have explored tracking mouse movement in Pygame. We learned how to import and initialize Pygame, create a display surface, handle mouse movement events and use the mouse position to do something in our game or application.

 

 

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