Re: [pygame] Pygame font issues

[Jake b <ninmonkeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

1) Are you using py2exe?

2) Copy-ing the font to the same folder as the game will probably work.

3) I ripped out my font name matching code, it might help. [It might
be easier if you want the whole font wrapper class.]

class Text(object):
	"""...code..."""
	def __init__(self, text=None, font=None, size=18,color="black",
bold=False, italic=False):
		"""font can be:
			1) filepath:
				"ttf/arial.ttf"
			2) list of names to search: ( calls self.match_font(list) )
				"arial, verdana, freesans"
			3) None
				use default font
		"""
		self.screen = pygame.display.get_surface()
		self.font_name = font
		self.font_size = size				
		
		self.color = pygame.color.Color( color )
		self.text = text
		self.antialias = True		
		self.color_bg = None
		self.rect = pygame.Rect(15,15,0,0)

		self.match_font('bitstreamverasans, verdana, arial,lucidia console')		
		self._create_font()
		
	def match_font(self, font_list, bold=False, italic=False):
		"""pygame.font.match_font() wrapper, but also sets the font. You can
		call with a commma deliminated list. It chooses the first valid font."""
		filename = pygame.font.match_font(font_list, bold, italic)				
		if not filename: # if failed, fallback on one that works
			filename = pygame.font.match_font('bitstreamverasans, verdana,
arial,lucidia console,freesans, freesansbold') # should at least have
freesans[bold] since it comes with pygame
		if( filename ):
			self.font_name = filename #was: font_list
			self._create_font()
			
	def _create_font(self, font=None):
		"""create Font() object"""
		try:
			self.font = pygame.font.Font( self.font_name, self.font_size )
		except IOError:
			if font:
				self.match_font(font) #, bold, italic)


-- 
Jake