Tom, thanks for responding. OK -- i'll try anything 2x at least ;o)
T ...... Happiness is a barometer, not the purpose. On 7/24/15, Tom Rothamel <t...@rothamel.us> wrote: > Have you tried the newer RAPT-based tool? PGS4A is getting very old, hasn't > been updated for newer android versions. (Part of the reason for > pygame_sdl2 is that it was easier and more productive to use SDL2 to port > to Android/iOS than to continue maintaining an Android SDL1 port.) > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:37 PM tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think I'm making progress on the issue, but I am still having >> problems with font rendering. The code below runs on my PC under >> Linux, i.e., it prints "hello world" on the window it produces. But >> when I make it into an apk with the pgsa-0.9.4 kit and run it on my >> phone, it puts garbage on the screen. I posted this item y'day except >> I have changed creation of the font object. Instead of using >> font.SysFont, I'm using font.Font with argument of a font file name, >> as in: >> >> font = pygame.font.Font(“data/Vera.ttf”, 25) >> >> No change in results but I think closer to good ones because I read on >> the net that SysFont will not work for android ports. It also stands >> to reason that it is better to include the data for the font in the >> apk. >> >> Again, I’ve put pygame apps on the phone which don’t use the Font objects >> and >> they run fine. And this one runs fine under Linux. >> >> >> ==== >> >> import pygame, sys, os, random >> from pygame.locals import * >> import time >> >> try: >> import android >> except ImportError: >> android = None >> >> def stop(interval=3): >> print “stopping >> ” + str(interval) >> time.sleep(interval) >> >> pygame.init() >> >> BLACK = (0, 0, 0) >> WHITE = (255, 255, 255) >> >> width = 400 >> height = 400 >> >> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height)) >> >> background = pygame.Surface(screen.get_size()) >> background = background.convert() >> background.fill(WHITE) >> >> surface = pygame.Surface((width,height)) >> >> font = pygame.font.Font(“data/Vera.ttf”, 25) >> >> itemSurface = font.render(“hello world!”, True, BLACK, WHITE) >> surface.blit(itemSurface, (0,0)) >> background.blit(surface, (0,0)) >> screen.blit(background,(0,0)) >> >> pygame.display.flip() >> >> stop(20) >> > --
