Re: [pygame] Segmentation Fault creating font

["Weber, Henrik" <henrik.weber@sdm.de>]

Pete Shinners wrote:
> Weber, Henrik wrote:
> > When I try to call the Font function with a parameter 
> > different from None I get a segmentation fault like this:
> > 
> >>>>import pygame
> >>>>pygame.font.init()
> >>>>f1 = pygame.font.Font(None, 14)
> >>>>f2 = pygame.font.Font("arial.ttf", 10)
> > 
> > Pygame Parachute Traceback:
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
> 
> the problem is that Font will need a full path to the font file. it 
> cannot find system fonts.

I thought I saw it crash with a full path yesterday as well. Probably I
misspelled the path
because I couldn't reproduce the crash today.

> but, it should not be throwing a segfault, 

Yes. I would like a python exception much better too :-)

> i'll see if i can figure out why that is, but likely a 
> foolish SDL_ttf 
> thing. perhaps i can workaround it in pygame by first doing a 
> 'isfile' 
> test on the string?
> 
> not too long ago we got some excellent code on the mailing list that 
> does find the full paths to fonts on the system path. i'm 
> still planning 
> to roll this into pygame's font module.

Which saves me from asking that question ;-)