Re: [pygame] font.get_fonts and OS X

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I committed what I have so far. If OS X has an fc-list equivalent take a 
look at the updates I made to the Unix section of sysfont.py for Python 
3 and unicode. Some of it may be relevant.

Lenard


René Dudfield wrote:
> hello,
>
> ah, nice catch!   That's annoying... all this time and it hasn't been
> working on OSX.
>
> Can you commit your tests?
>
> I can have a go at it... unless Brian you want to have a go?
>
>
> Here are the main font paths... the X11 one isn't there on most
> installs for 10.4.x ... but should be there on most 10.5.x installs.
> The last path is where OS9 used to install fonts, and some people
> still use that directory apparently.
>
> ~/Library/Fonts/
> /Library/Fonts/
> /System/Library/Fonts/
> /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
> /Network/Library/Fonts/
> /System Folder/Fonts/
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Currently I am filling in the font unit tests. For OS X I noticed that
> > sysfont.py does not hunt down installed fonts. The relevant function is a
> > stub. I have no OS X access, so can't write it myself. Is someone else
> > willing to take care of it. Otherwise when I commit the completed unit tests
> > they will fail for OS X.
> >
> > Lenard
> >
> >
> >