Re: [pygame] having problem with font objects in pgs4a ports to android

[Tom Rothamel <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried your entire app under RAPT/pygame_sdl2?Â

The general idea is that pygame_sdl2 should run all pygame games unchanged except for the import code. Insofar as it doesn't, that's something we should investigate and try fix.

(The one exception is the dropping of support for non-32 bit surfaces, which have probably been obsolete for a while now, and complicate everything by requiring 4 code paths.)

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:46 PM tom arnall <kloro2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tom,

Thanks again for the help you have been giving me. And thanks of
course for your work on pygame_sdl2.

Is it possible to take just the font rendering capability from
pygame_sdl2 and use it without changing the rest of my application? I
would like to avoid rewriting the application in order to deal with
drawing a line of text

Are there any areas in which pygame_sdl2 is not compatible with python 2.7 ?

If I use the pygame_sdl2 font rendering, do I need to use RAPT instead
of pgs4a for the port to android? (Yes, this is an obviously lazy
question, but please cut me a break on it.)

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me,

Tom Arnall
Baja Norte





On 7/24/15, Tom Rothamel <tom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have you tried the newer RAPT-based tool? PGS4A is getting very old, hasn't
> been updated for newer android versions. (Part of the reason for
> pygame_sdl2 is that it was easier and more productive to use SDL2 to port
> to Android/iOS than to continue maintaining an Android SDL1 port.)
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:37 PM tom arnall <kloro2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I think I'm making progress on the issue, but I am still having
>> problems with font rendering. The code below runs on my PC under
>> Linux, i.e., it prints "hello world" on the window it produces. But
>> when I make it into an apk with the pgsa-0.9.4 kit and run it on my
>> phone, it puts garbage on the screen. I posted this item y'day except
>> I have changed creation of the font object. Instead of using
>> font.SysFont, I'm using font.Font with argument of a font file name,
>> as in:
>>
>>Â Â Âfont = pygame.font.Font(âdata/Vera.ttfâ, 25)
>>
>> No change in results but I think closer to good ones because I read on
>> the net that SysFont will not work for android ports. It also stands
>> to reason that it is better to include the data for the font in the
>> apk.
>>
>> Again, Iâve put pygame apps on the phone which donât use the Font objects
>> and
>> they run fine. And this one runs fine under Linux.
>>
>>
>> ====
>>
>> import pygame, sys, os, random
>> from pygame.locals import *
>> import time
>>
>> try:
>>Â Â Âimport android
>> except ImportError:
>>Â Â Âandroid = None
>>
>> def stop(interval=3):
>>Â Â Âprint âstopping >> â + str(interval)
>>Â Â Âtime.sleep(interval)
>>
>> pygame.init()
>>
>> BLACK = (0, 0, 0)
>> WHITE = (255, 255, 255)
>>
>> width = 400
>> height = 400
>>
>> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
>>
>> background = ""> >> background = ""> >> background.fill(WHITE)
>>
>> surface = pygame.Surface((width,height))
>>
>> font = pygame.font.Font(âdata/Vera.ttfâ, 25)
>>
>> itemSurface = font.render(âhello world!â, True, BLACK, WHITE)
>> surface.blit(itemSurface, (0,0))
>> background.blit(surface, (0,0))
>> screen.blit(background,(0,0))
>>
>> pygame.display.flip()
>>
>> stop(20)
>>
>


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