Re: [pygame] pygame.error: SDL_ttf render failed

["spotter ." <talonspotter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I once had an error like that as well. It turned out that it worked
fine if I set the font = None
in the class before def __init__ I dont know if this is something
similar, but I am attaching the code to my Text class if it helps any.

Good luck squashing bugs :)

Spot.

On 7/25/06, Joseph Quigley <cpu.crazy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
> I just recently noticed that I keep getting this error on a game that
> I am making:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "main.py", line 176, in ?
>     main()
>   File "main.py", line 141, in main
>     runGame()
>   File "main.py", line 80, in runGame
>     endState = currentLevel.run()
>   File "/home/therat/Desktop/bibledave_v0.6.4.3/basegamelevel.py",
> line 649, in run
>     self.hud.paint(self.screen)
>   File "/home/therat/Desktop/bibledave_v0.6.4.3/hud.py", line 81, in paint
>     base.drawTextColored (surface, 24, draw_text, (w/8, (h-h/4) +
> (line_num - min) * 30), (self.drawTextColor, self.drawTextColor,
> self.drawTextColor))
>   File "/home/therat/Desktop/bibledave_v0.6.4.3/base.py", line 113, in
> drawTextColored
>     orig = font.render(message, 0, fontcolor)
> pygame.error: SDL_ttf render failed
>
> When text is displayed on the hud it is supposed to fade out but the
> game crashes and displays this error instead. I have no idea how this
> happened because the game used to work fine one day and the next it
> began to crash.
>
> One other issue I have noticed is that pygame.init() takes forever to
> load (whether solar wolf or some of the pygame demos).
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Joe
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import pygame

#Text class
class Text:
    font = None
    
    def __init__(self, text, position, color, font, font_size, center_or_origin):
        

        self.text = text
        self.position = position
        self.color = color
        #self.shadow_color = shadow_color
        self.font = font
        self.fontsize = font_size
        # set position to be middle of text
        #weird bug in idle:
        # if you have #set on a line and have no space before set,
        # it highlights to not be a comment. script works, but no highlight
        self.font = pygame.font.Font(self.font, self.fontsize)
              
        
        #print self.text
        self.width, self.height = self.font.size(self.text)
        
        
        self.image = self.font.render(self.text, 1, self.color)
        
        #self.rect = (position, (self.width, self.height))

        if center_or_origin == 1:
            self.rect = self.image.get_rect(topleft=position)
        elif center_or_origin == 0:
            self.rect = self.image.get_rect(center=position)