hi, what are the permissions of the font file? Maybe something weird is going on there?
cu, On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Peter Chant <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 02 May 2009, Yanom Mobis wrote: >> does >> >> font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36) >> >> use the player's default system font? > > None does not work: > > self.font = pygame.font.Font(None,36) > RuntimeError: default font not found 'freesansbold.ttf' > > its looking for freesansbold, which even though it exists, can't be found: > > bash-3.1$ locate freesansbold.ttf > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame/freesansbold.ttf > > Note, I think your reference to default systems font is a windows reference. > I'm on linux. > > Pete > > > > -- > Peter Chant > http://www.petezilla.co.uk >
