font-name/font-family inconsistency or a bug?

[anatoly techtonik]

Does anybody know why this works:

font_family = 'Monospace'
render = pyglet.text.Label('A', font_name=font_family)

And this doesn't:

font_family = ['Monospace']
render = pyglet.text.Label('A', font_name=font_family)

text.Label() doc says:
`font_name` : str or list
Font family name(s). If more than one name is given, the
first matching name is used.

I couldn't dig where this bug coming from. Maybe anybody already knows?
pyglet HEAD, Linux
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anatoly t.

[Nathan]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Zim the Fox <eche...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, Anatoly.

I am using an old (couple of months) version of Pyglet 1.2 alpha and your example works perfectly. So, while I don't know what causes the bug, it seems to be fixed in the up coming version. :)

Er, but he already said he was using "pyglet HEAD", which I would guess means the tip of the hg repo, which _isn't_ working for him.  :-/

~ Nathan

 

[anatoly techtonik]

Can you do 'hg clone' and try current pyglet version on Linux? I am pretty sure that Linux (Freetype) have_font() function is broken, but I don't know hot to fix it. Freetype documentation looks too complicated.

On Monday, September 3, 2012 7:22:27 PM UTC+3, Zim the Fox wrote:

Hello, Anatoly.

I am using an old (couple of months) version of Pyglet 1.2 alpha and your example works perfectly. So, while I don't know what causes the bug, it seems to be fixed in the up coming version. :)

Cheers,
Zim

[Nathan]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:15 AM, anatoly techtonik <tech...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can you do 'hg clone' and try current pyglet version on Linux? I am pretty sure that Linux (Freetype) have_font() function is broken, but I don't know hot to fix it. Freetype documentation looks too complicated.

Anatoly, I just did this on a two completely-up-to-date VMs of Ubuntu 12.04 (one VM is 32-bit and the other is 64-bit) with all updates installed.  It works with ['Monospace'] on both VMs!

Perhaps you need to update your system?  Or perhaps it is the difference between a hardware- and software-based rendering stack? (I would assume my VMware VM is using software rendering).

~ Nathan