If you still don't have a solution I suggest using the default font for
pygame
freesansbold.tiff it is located in the python library files just search for
it in the python-pygame directory.
I think your code fails because it does not pick the font you wanted hence
not initialised.
Below is a sample code of a font been used from a file you can equally
download fonts from google fonts
fontObj = pygame.font.Font("freesansbold.ttf", 40)
fontObj is our object been initialised.
Hope it helps
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> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:31:57 +0200
> From: William <it.isw...@yahoo.com>
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> Hello there I'm using Python 3.4 running on Ubuntu 14.04LTS
> I'm new to programming and also new to linux
> I'm trying to learn the pygame library
> I was reading :
>
>
> http://programarcadegames.com/index.php?chapter=introduction_to_graphics&lang=en#section_5
>
> On the section on how to draw text the writer has the following code
> |
> font ||=||pygame.font.SysFont(||'Calibri'||, ||25||, ||True||, ||False||)|
> |text ||=||font.render(||"My text"||,||True||,BLACK)
> ||screen.blit(text, [||250||, ||250||])
>
> When I run the code using the IDLE the Python shell gives me the
> following error
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/william/Desktop/Pygame/Python 3X/Drawing_Shapes.py", line
> 48, in <module>
> font = pygame.font.SysFont('Calibri', 25, True, False)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> 614, in SysFont
> return constructor(fontname, size, set_bold, set_italic)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> 537, in font_constructor
> font = pygame.font.Font(fontpath, size)
> pygame.error: font not initialized
>
>
> I think the problem is that the fonts in Ubuntu are probably stored in a
> different
> location than in Windows OS.And therefore python can not find it using
> the SysFont
> method
> Can anyone give me any suggestion on how to edit the code so that I can
> write text
> on my graphics?
> Thank you.
> |
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 14:31:04 +0100
> From: Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de>
> To: tutor@python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] Trouble creating a pygame.font.SysFont, was Re: (no
> subject)
> Message-ID: <m5chqo$e54$1...@ger.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> William wrote:
>
> Hello William; please provide a meaningful subject line so that your
> readers
> get a hint whether your question is in their area of expertise.
>
>
> > Hello there I'm using Python 3.4 running on Ubuntu 14.04LTS
> > I'm new to programming and also new to linux
> > I'm trying to learn the pygame library
> > I was reading :
> >
> >
>
> http://programarcadegames.com/index.php?chapter=introduction_to_graphics&lang=en#section_5
> >
> > On the section on how to draw text the writer has the following code
> > |
> > font ||=||pygame.font.SysFont(||'Calibri'||, ||25||, ||True||,
> ||False||)|
> > |text ||=||font.render(||"My text"||,||True||,BLACK)
> > ||screen.blit(text, [||250||, ||250||])
>
> That is very hard to read. If you have to post Python code please do it in
> plain text without those funny "|". Thank you.
>
> > When I run the code using the IDLE the Python shell gives me the
> > following error
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/home/william/Desktop/Pygame/Python 3X/Drawing_Shapes.py", line
> > 48, in <module>
> > font = pygame.font.SysFont('Calibri', 25, True, False)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> > 614, in SysFont
> > return constructor(fontname, size, set_bold, set_italic)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> > 537, in font_constructor
> > font = pygame.font.Font(fontpath, size)
> > pygame.error: font not initialized
> >
> >
> > I think the problem is that the fonts in Ubuntu are probably stored in a
> > different
> > location than in Windows OS.And therefore python can not find it using
> > the SysFont
> > method
> > Can anyone give me any suggestion on how to edit the code so that I can
> > write text
> > on my graphics?
>
> Quoting the page you link to:
>
> """
> The first code a Pygame program needs to do is load and initialize the
> Pygame library. Every program that uses Pygame should start with these
> lines:
>
> Importing and initializing Pygame
> # Import a library of functions called 'pygame'
> import pygame
> # Initialize the game engine
> pygame.init()
> """
>
> Did you follow that advice? If you did and your script is reasonably short
> please post it here so that we can have a look or try to run it ourselves.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:26:16 -0800
> From: Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org>
> To: William <it.isw...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid>
> Cc: Python Tutor Mailing List <tutor@python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)
> Message-ID:
> <
> cagzapf6isqciv+nsqr5wjk0ta8mtqwcvshonqtz_emcebr1...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> > When I run the code using the IDLE the Python shell gives me the
> following
> > error
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/home/william/Desktop/Pygame/Python 3X/Drawing_Shapes.py", line
> 48, in
> > <module>
> > font = pygame.font.SysFont('Calibri', 25, True, False)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> 614,
> > in SysFont
> > return constructor(fontname, size, set_bold, set_italic)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> 537,
> > in font_constructor
> > font = pygame.font.Font(fontpath, size)
> > pygame.error: font not initialized
>
>
> Hi William,
>
> Please check with the pygame folks on this one; pygame is a
> third-party library, and we at Tutor might not be too familiar with
> the library. There should be an active pygame-users mailing list at
> the following URL:
>
> http://www.pygame.org/wiki/info
>
> According to web searches, the term "pygame.error: font not
> initialized" means that you may have forgotten to initialize PyGame
> first.
>
> Reference: http://inventwithpython.com/pygame/chapter2.html, where
> they say: "If you ever see an error message like pygame.error: font
> not initialized, check to see if you forgot to call pygame.init() at
> the start of your program."
>
>
> Again, I have no direct experience with PyGame, so I can not confirm
> that this will fix the issue for your own program. This is why you'll
> probably want to ask on pygame-users.
>
>
> Good luck to you!
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:06:05 -0600
> From: Japhy Bartlett <ja...@pearachute.com>
> To: William <it.isw...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid>
> Cc: Python Tutor <tutor@python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] (no subject)
> Message-ID:
> <CANTsVHJnKkrzj=WR2gbSpCCDOVw5LGpVJpE=
> h5zjyzutnoa...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> It looks like this is a pretty common stumbling block, and you need to call
> `pygame.font.init()` before the code you pasted.
>
> Also.. the way you've pasted that code has added '||' all over the place.
> Not sure what's going on there (some sort of tabs/spaces thing?), but it
> makes it extremely hard to read!
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:31 AM, William <it.isw...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hello there I'm using Python 3.4 running on Ubuntu 14.04LTS
> > I'm new to programming and also new to linux
> > I'm trying to learn the pygame library
> > I was reading :
> >
> > http://programarcadegames.com/index.php?chapter=
> > introduction_to_graphics&lang=en#section_5
> >
> > On the section on how to draw text the writer has the following code
> > |
> > font ||=||pygame.font.SysFont(||'Calibri'||, ||25||, ||True||,
> ||False||)|
> > |text ||=||font.render(||"My text"||,||True||,BLACK)
> > ||screen.blit(text, [||250||, ||250||])
> >
> > When I run the code using the IDLE the Python shell gives me the
> following
> > error
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/home/william/Desktop/Pygame/Python 3X/Drawing_Shapes.py", line 48,
> > in <module>
> > font = pygame.font.SysFont('Calibri', 25, True, False)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> > 614, in SysFont
> > return constructor(fontname, size, set_bold, set_italic)
> > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line
> > 537, in font_constructor
> > font = pygame.font.Font(fontpath, size)
> > pygame.error: font not initialized
> >
> >
> > I think the problem is that the fonts in Ubuntu are probably stored in a
> > different
> > location than in Windows OS.And therefore python can not find it using
> the
> > SysFont
> > method
> > Can anyone give me any suggestion on how to edit the code so that I can
> > write text
> > on my graphics?
> > Thank you.
> > |
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