Re: [pygame] Segmentation Fault creating font

["John Popplewell" <john@johnnypops.demon.co.uk>]

Hi Pete,

you are right, it is a 'foolish SDL_ttf thing'!

It affects all platforms as far as I can tell.
I have submitted a tiny patch to the SDL list,
Your 'isfile' check would work round it, but the
problem really needs fixing at source,

best regards,
John.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Shinners" <pete@shinners.org>
To: <pygame-users@seul.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [pygame] Segmentation Fault creating font


> 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. but, it should not be throwing a segfault,
> 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.
>
> --
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> pete*shinners.org
>