I downloaded the new version and gave it a spin- unfortunately it seems to still throw the same error. The update delays the time before the error is thrown, but unfortunately on my system it still throws it. I’ve created an issue on the Google Code group with more detailed information.

Thanks for all your help with this- it’s invaluable!

I’ve updated TextWidget to hopefully fix this bug, take a look at the update post or it’s new google code home: http://code.google.com/p/textwidget/

I hope this helps.

I’m using your TextWidget class for a little project of mine- it’s proving very useful!

However, I’m getting a strange error. I’m developing on Ubuntu and the code seems to work fine- visually at least- it looks like it’s working. However after a moment or two (5->15 sec) it crashes and says:

File “/home/sasayaki/Python/TextWidget.py”, line 163, in __init__
File “/home/sasayaki/Python/TextWidget.py”, line 98, in __set_font_filename
File “/home/sasayaki/Python/TextWidget.py”, line 183, in create_font
IOError: unable to read font filename

The text widget is created using:

blah = TextWidget.TextWidget(”blah”, (255,0,0),font_filename=”VeraBd.ttf”)

And VeraBd.ttf is in the same directory as the rest of the code.

Note that it reads and displays the font just fine (as far as I can see). Anyone else getting a similar error?