RE: [pygame] pygame and py2exe

[David Woods <dwoods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, there's nothing like sending a query to a mailing list for spurring the
insight that solves the problem.

Once I moved the code that sets the program icon to BEFORE my set_mode
command, the program works.  So pygame was looking for it's own icon upon
setting the mode, wasn't finding it, and was blowing up.  If I gave it a
specific icon to look for before calling my first set_mode(), it was okay.

Sorry to bother you.

David



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Woods
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 2:11 PM
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pygame] pygame and py2exe
> 
> 
> I'm an experience Python/wxPython programmer new to pygame.  
> I apologize. Based on my web searches, this question has been 
> asked many times before, but I've been unable to find an 
> actual ANSWER that addresses my problem.
> 
> I've written my first pygame application and gotten it 
> working perfectly from the command line.  Now I want to use 
> py2exe to make a stand-alone application.
> 
> I'm using Python 2.3.5, pygame 1.6.2, and py2exe 0.6.3, all 
> on Windows XP.
> 
> My main program is called ScaleWalls.py, and it imports a 
> module called ScaleGUI.py.  The only pygame-py2exe scripts I 
> could locate were quite obsolete and had many problems, so I 
> gave up on those and started over. Here's the py2exe script I 
> wrote to package the program up:
> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python 
> from distutils.core import setup 
> import py2exe, pygame 
> import glob, shutil 
> 
> setup(windows=["ScaleWalls.py"], 
> name='Scale Walls game', 
> version='0.0.1', 
> description='A little game built for the SCALE project', 
> author='David K. Woods', 
> author_email='dwoods at wcer dot wisc dot edu', 
> url='www.wcer.wisc.edu', 
> py_modules=['ScaleGUI'] 
> ) 
> 
> shutil.copyfile('ScaleIcon.bmp', 'dist/ScaleIcon.bmp') 
> shutil.copyfile('ScaleFont.ttf', 'dist/ScaleFont.ttf') 
> 
> 
> As you can see, I made sure to copy the font and icon bitmap 
> my program uses to my dist folder, where my executable 
> resides.  That seems to have taken care of the issue for many 
> people with the problems I'm having, but it makes no 
> difference for me.  
> 
> When I try to run my executable, the screen flickers, trying 
> to create the window, the window closes, and then I get a 
> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library message saying "Runtime 
> Error!  ...  This application has requested the Runtime to 
> terminate in an unusual way.  Please contact the 
> application's support team for more information."  Very 
> helpful, as I AM the application's support team.
> 
> I added a log file, and it appears that pygame.init() 
> successfully returns (6, 0), but that the program blows up on 
> the next line:
> 
> self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREENWIDTH, SCREENHEIGHT))
> 
> I have exactly the same problem when I try to make an 
> executable from the aliens.py example that comes with pygame.
> 
> I'd be grateful if someone can point me to a solution to this 
> problem.  
> 
> David Woods
> 
>