This Python Server-based game I’m building requires data to be sent back and forth between the host and the client. But the client’s pygame window keeps flashing.

I have this class loop (my_player)

my_player.start()
player_thread = threading.Thread(target=my_player.run_display)
player_thread.start()

this is the class pygame (my_player) class code

def start(self):
    pygame.init()

    self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
    self.clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    self.running = True

def run_display(self):
    while self.running:
        for event in pygame.event.get():
            if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                self.running = False
        with lock:  # Acquire the lock before accessing shared resources
            self.move()
            self.draw_map()
            pygame.display.flip()
            self.clock.tick(60)

    pygame.quit()

The loop does work the screen flashes like crazy and objects load in and out. How could I fix this?

I tried removing the ‘while self.running’ which still caused the screen to flash. I also tried to keep the while self.running and remove the thread and just run as a function, which also gave flashing.