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

import pygame

pygame.init()

# Create display surface
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))

# Load object image
object_image = pygame.image.load('icon.png')
object_rect = object_image.get_rect()

# Main loop
while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            quit()
        elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEMOTION:
            mouse_pos = event.pos
            # Move object based on mouse position
            object_rect.x = mouse_pos[0]
            object_rect.y = mouse_pos[1]
    # Blit object to the display
    screen.blit(object_image, object_rect)
    # Update the display
    pygame.display.update()

import pygame

pygame.init()

# Create display surface

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))

# Load object image

object_image = pygame.image.load('icon.png')

object_rect = object_image.get_rect()

# Main loop

while True:

for event in pygame.event.get():

if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

pygame.quit()

quit()

elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEMOTION:

mouse_pos = event.pos

# Move object based on mouse position

object_rect.x = mouse_pos[0]

object_rect.y = mouse_pos[1]

# Blit object to the display

screen.blit(object_image, object_rect)

# Update the display

pygame.display.update()

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

import pygame
pygame.init()

1 2	import pygame pygame.init()

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.

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))

1	screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))

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

while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

while True:

for event in pygame.event.get():

if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

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.

while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            quit()
        elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEMOTION:
            mouse_pos = event.pos
            object_rect.x = mouse_pos[0]
            object_rect.y = mouse_pos[1]

while True:

for event in pygame.event.get():

if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

pygame.quit()

quit()

elif event.type == pygame.MOUSEMOTION:

mouse_pos = event.pos

object_rect.x = mouse_pos[0]

object_rect.y = mouse_pos[1]

Run your code and this will be the output

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.