"Unable to read font filename"

[ScottRastyles]

When I try to open the tracker, it crashes and it makes those messages in the tracker_log.

"2017-05-29 19:23:21 ERROR: Couldn't load font "Arial", falling back to Arial
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "view_controls\view.py", line 528, in reset_options
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygame\sysfont.py", line 577, in SysFont
IOError: unable to read font filename"

"2017-05-29 19:23:21 Traceback (most recent call last):
File "item_tracker.py", line 231, in main
File "item_tracker.py", line 61, in run
File "view_controls\view.py", line 69, in init
File "view_controls\view.py", line 92, in start_pygame
File "view_controls\view.py", line 535, in reset_options
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygame\sysfont.py", line 577, in SysFont
IOError: unable to read font filename"

[Hyphen-ated]

It looks like you don't have the font Arial installed, and we assumed that would never happen. The real fix for this bug is for us to distribute a font with the tracker that it can use as a fallback.

In the meantime, two options you can use to work around this bug are:
1: install Arial
2: manually edit the file options.json and change the value of "show_font" from "Arial" to some other font that you do have installed. You can also change it to "None" to get a really ugly default font that should at least still work.

[ScottRastyles]

The thing is that Arial is installed. Also changing the font does not work for me, just gives me Runtime Error (tried both with the fonts that I have installed and the "None" font).

[Hyphen-ated]

The same error as before, or a different one?

[ScottRastyles]

Different one, this one does not appear in tracker_log. This one is a windows pop up.

[Hyphen-ated]

Can you post your options.json please?

Also, what version of Windows are you using?

[ScottRastyles]

{
"background_color": "#3C3C3C",
"blck_cndl_mode": false,
"bold_font": true,
"change_server": false,
"check_for_updates": true,
"custom_title": "",
"custom_title_enabled": false,
"default_spacing": 64,
"enable_mouseover": true,
"framerate_limit": 30,
"game_version": "Afterbirth+",
"height": 100,
"item_details_link": "http://platinumgod.co.uk/afterbirth?id=$ID",
"make_items_glow": true,
"message_duration": 7,
"min_spacing": 24,
"read_delay": 15,
"read_from_server": false,
"show_blind_icon": true,
"show_description": true,
"show_floors": true,
"show_font": "Sofia",
"show_health_ups": true,
"show_rerolled_items": true,
"show_space_items": true,
"show_status_message": true,
"size_multiplier": 1.0,
"status_message": "Seed: {seed} / Guppy: {guppy} / Leviathan: {leviathan} / Spun: {spun} / {version_number} / Room: {room_id}",
"text_color": "#FFFFFF",
"trackerserver_authkey": "",
"trackerserver_url": "http://isaacitemtracker.com:8080",
"twitch_name": "",
"width": 1000,
"word_wrap": false,
"write_to_server": false,
"x_position": 100,
"y_position": 100
}

[josh-cook]

@ScottRastyles looks like you're using show_font: "sofia" maybe it didn't save when you changed it in the .json file.

I've been trying to append my own font too, instead of the standard list given... not sussed out how to do that. @Hyphen-ated anyway of adding custom fonts without dev work needed?

[Hyphen-ated]

@cookiej91 in theory you can use any font you have installed on your system by editing options.json to set show_font to the appropriate font name. Unfortunately there is sometimes weird inconsistency with font names, e.g. the font listed as "Eurostile Regular" in windows needs to be named as just "Eurostile", and the font listed as "Valken Medium" needs to be named "Valken Regular", and some system fonts don't seem to be usable at all. If you examine your font with a ttf editor (or just look at it in a text editor and find the ascii text strings among the binary) it might help find the right name to use. or if that fails, and you have a python environment you can run code in, the method pygame.font.get_fonts() returns a large list of font name strings which should hopefully be usable

[josh-cook]

You are a great, great person! Thanks so much for this!