Re: [pygame] PyGlyph: Making Examples Work

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kris Schnee wrote:
> I'd like to be able to render text in OpenGL so that I can do an 
> interface not limited to SDL rendering speeds, but so far I've not 
> succeeded. PyGlyph seems like a solution, but its Hello World example 
> crashes.
>
> <code>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\example\hello.py", line 56, in ?
>     HelloExample().run()
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\example\example_base.py", line 60, in run
>     self.init()
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\example\hello.py", line 30, in init
>     fonts = pyglyph.font.LocalFontFactory(font_dir)
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\font.py", line 117, in __init__
>     self.add(path)
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\font.py", line 130, in add
>     self.add(os.path.join(path, file))
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\font.py", line 132, in add
>     info = pyglyph.ttf.TruetypeInfo(path)
>   File "C:\Python24\pyglyph\ttf.py", line 93, in __init__
>     mmap.MAP_SHARED, mmap.PROT_READ)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MAP_SHARED'
> </code>
>
> The problem might be due to a bad installation, as I had to guess at 
> where to put the files. Through some combination of trying to run 
> setup.py (which just complained that I didn't give it any parameters) 
> and simply moving files, I got PyGlyph's files into a subdirectory of 
> Python24. I tried "import pyglyph" in the console, which worked. But 
> then the "hello" and "paragraph" examples gave me this error.
It didn't work when you did
'python setup.py install'?
it required more arguments than that?
(Just thought I'd ask in case you didn't pass it 'install' :)