Re: [pygame] Mac Newbie - Help!

[Bob Ippolito <bob@threeoh.com>]

Just to confirm that I'm not dead...  I've been really really REALLY busy lately with other stuff, and haven't had a chance to update pygame at all, besides the fact that I didn't have access to a G4 anymore.

Anyways, I have one at home now, and can resume work with it.. provided I can find my codewarrior cds or do something slightly unethical in lieu of that

But I've been on a business trip for the past 2 weeks or so, and I'm not even back yet (in chicago at the moment).  I'll give a post when I get home, situtated, and acquire the proper resources to update the stuff.

If I end up having the kinda free time I'm hoping to have, I'll see about writing in some cross-platform truetype support, hacking around threadless/notimer issues if possible, and taking care to compile both carbonized and non-carbonized versions of the library.  Perhaps I'll even get a copy of OS X.1 and come up with a distribution for that.  As it is, the binaries I've made available are "the first build that did some of what they were supposed to do, and not really anything more".

-bob

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:17:20AM -0800, Pete Shinners wrote:
> Chris Scott wrote:
> 
> >Trying to get started with pygame on a Mac G4, but I can't seem to beat the
> >errors. I'm having problems with the pygame.font module - it doesn't seem 
> >to
> >recognize any of my true type fonts. I've tried bluebold and arial, both
> >throw errors that they are not defined. When I manage to get the thing to
> >run, it winds up throwing an errors that it's not configured to run 
> >threads?
> >This is all on the chimp tutorial!
> 
> heh, ok, i'll try to help out here. but we're gonna need the big help 
> from our other mac users. unfortunately i haven't seen much from bob 
> lately (who created the original prebuilt libraries).
> 
> first, i'm assuming this is MacOS (not OSX) and you installed from the 
> prebuilt SIT file on the pygame page? using macpython 2.0?
> 
> i did just install pygame on my brother's powerbook, and i don't believe 
> we had any big problems. do the other examples run? one i do remembered 
> running good was the "liquid" example.
> 
> as for the threading error. none of the pygame examples require 
> threading. on MacOS (classic) python does not have support for threads, 
> so unfortunately SolarWolf will not run on macos. all the other pygame 
> games and examples should run ok.
> 
> anyways, hopefully with a little more information, someone who knows 
> their way around the macos block can tip in a little advice?
> 
> 
> now if i can turn this around and ask my own befuddled macos question...
> when i installed pygame on my brothers laptop, all the .PY files were 
> associated with simpletext. i couldn't figure out a way to make them 
> automatically run with the actual python interpreter. so running each 
> example involved dragging the .PY file onto the python interpreter icon. 
> not the biggest problem, but that python interpreter is buried a little 
> deep, so quickly launching any python script is a bit of work. i assume 
> there's an easy solution, but it didn't show itself to me :-/  help?
> 
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