RE: [Py2exe-users] font problem

[Jimmy R. <ji...@re...>]

Elliot Temple wrote:
> When I use py2exe I get this problem running my game:
>=20
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "curi's blocks.py", line 225, in ?
>    File "curi's blocks.py", line 91, in main
>    File "curi's blocks.py", line 197, in DrawPauseScreen
> RuntimeError: default font not found
>=20
> I don't get any problem with py2app. In my code (written a year ago,
> but I'm doing py2exe now) I found:
>=20
>      if pygame.font:
>          font =3D pygame.font.Font(None, 36)
>          text =3D font.render(s1, 1, (255, 255, 255))
>=20
> I assume I need to copy the right font into the folder for my game. I
> don't know which font is the default, or if I can just choose any and
> name it something specific, or if I need to change the code. Let me
> know what to do.

I assume you are using pygame (which I know very little about except
that people often ask about fonts when asking about pygame and py2exe) -
maybe this will help:

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/pygame_py2exe.html

Jimmy