Re: [pygame] freetype + unusual font format: What am I doing wrong?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,

This sounds like issue #144, unable to render text. 
<https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issue/144/unable-to-render-text> 
The issue #144 fix is included in an updated 32bit Windows installer 
added to the downloads page 
<https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issue/144/unable-to-render-text> 
earlier this week: pygame-1.9.2a0-12de2da43ecb.win32-py3.3.msi 
<https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads/pygame-1.9.2a0-12de2da43ecb.win32-py3.3.msi>. 
I have taken to adding a changeset identifier to the file name so 
tracking installer versions will be easer.

Lenard Lindstrom

On 13-10-04 05:50 AM, Jason Marshall wrote:
> I would like to use the freetype module to render text from a BDF font 
> file, but I am getting a vague error. I am using the 8x8 font from 
> this site:
> http://beej.us/c64bdf/c64bdf/c64.bdf
>
> >>>import os
> >>>os.environ["PYGAME_FREETYPE"] = "1"
> >>>import pygame
> >>> pygame.font
> <module 'pygame.ftfont' from 
> 'C:\\Python33\\lib\\site-packages\\pygame\\ftfont.py'>
> >>> import pygame.freetype
> >>> pygame.freetype.init()
> >>> c64 = pygame.freetype.Font(r'C:\Users\marshalls\Downloads\c64.bdf', 8)
> >>> s = c64.render('TEST', pygame.Color('white'), pygame.Color('blue'))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> SystemError: error return without exception set
> >>>
>
> Can somebody spot what I am doing wrong?
>
> I am using a recent build of pygame 1.9.2pre and Python 3.3 (32-bit) 
> on Windows.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason