Re: [pygame] Problems loading fonts on Windows

[Guillaume Proux <gproux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to have a quick fix.

Get ctypes (from python starship) and use the following function

_specialdirs={'windows': 0x24,'my documents': 0x5 }
def GetSpecialDirectoryPath(dirname):
   from ctypes import oledll,cast,c_buffer,c_wchar_p
   shell32dll=oledll.shell32
   MAX_PATH=256
   location=cast(c_buffer(MAX_PATH*2),c_wchar_p)
   CSIDL_WINDOWS=0x24
   SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT=0
   
shell32dll.SHGetFolderPathW(0,_specialdirs[dirname.lower()],0,SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT,location)
   if not location:
       raise Exception("special dir %s was not found"%dirname)
   return unicode(location.value)

that you will call at the init of your game with

if sys.platform == 'win32' and not os.environ.has_key('WINDIR'):
	os.environ['WINDIR']=GetSpecialDirectoryPath("Windows")


Regards,

Guillaume

Will Newton wrote:

> Hi, I'm deploying a cross platform pygame script. On windows I have had a 
> report of an error thrown loading fonts because WINDIR is not defined in the 
> env. Has anyone else seen this?
>
> self.default_font = pygame.font.SysFont("courier", 12, False, False)
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pygame\sysfont.py", line 230, in SysFont
> initsysfonts()
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pygame\sysfont.py", line 195, in 
> initsysfonts
> fonts = initsysfonts_win32()
> File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pygame\sysfont.py", line 48, in 
> initsysfonts_win32
> fontdir = os.path.join(os.environ['WINDIR'], "Fonts")
> File "C:\Python23\lib\os.py", line 417, in __getitem__
> return self.data[key.upper()]
> KeyError: 'WINDIR'
>
>
>