[pygame] Re: Erratic behavior with pygame.font.SysFont

[Daniel Waltrip <dwaltrip77@xxxxxxxxx>]

What method did you determine if a font had the "erratic behavior",
where it wouldn't load and didn't have a real exception?
Is there a simple way other than testing each font individually?

On my system there are 220 fonts returned by pygame.font.get_fonts()

On Dec 30, 5:24 am, Rolf Sievers <rolf.siev...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have got 271 Fonts on my (father's) PC and just checked all of them
> with a modified script.http://lizard.pastebin.com/m3bc7419c
>
> You can see which fonts have this erratic behavion, which fail to load
> with  real exception, which display strange (boxes) and wich work fine.
> 30 are broken
> 206 work fine
>
> > On XP with 1.9.1 I freeze up on the ~10th font called impact.
>
> I'm on Vista, PortablePython 2.5, pygame 1.8.1release - impact works for me
> Therefore it might be wise to double check the fonts anyone reports as
> broken
> Also I don't have my own PC and can't install Subversion to make a
> patch, neither do I feel good enough to write one by hand
>
> On 30.12.2009 09:42, René Dudfield wrote:
>
>
>
> > hi,
>
> > you could try filtering out that font and not loading it.  I'm
> > guessing there is a bug in freetype and that font.
>
> > I could add that font(and other broken ones) to sysfont if someone
> > submits a patch.  That is a font blacklist.
> >      http://www.seul.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/lib/sysfont.py?rev=2519...
>
> > cu,
>
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Ian Mallett<geometr...@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> >> I get the same error as Dan.