Custom fonts not loading, editing .json during runtime fixed it

[Julian-Roach]

Is this the appropriate place to post this? Anyway,

I've spent an amount of time trying to figure out why my font placed in the parallel folder Fonts/fontname.ttf wouldn't load, even though pygame recognized it and my .json file with

"font_paths": [
        { "name": "myfont", "path": "absolute_path/fontname.ttf" }
]

seemed to be perfectly written. Altering the .json during runtime, which forces a refresh, suddenly applied my font on the screen, implying the manager hadn't loaded it initially. Hence I played around and found that calling

manager.get_theme().reload_theming()
manager.rebuild_all_from_changed_theme_data()

right before my main loop also made the manager recognize the appropriate font.

To be fair, I haven't been using pygame_gui for long, but I couldn't find enough help in the documentation either, so I wish there had been a more direct explanation on how loading from files works around here.

Either I have overlooked something, or it could also be a linux-specific issue, as I'm on manjaro linux (though using a virtual environment)

[Julian-Roach]

Actually, the .json file wasn't the one that provided the information at all. I hard coded it with the
a = manager.add_font_paths()
function.

Immediate suggestion: perhaps return "True" if there's any path error and "False" if loading the font goes smoothly? This way it's wayy easier to analyze path issues by calling print(a)