Hopper

Font rendering bug

Bug #514236 reported by Hexocon on 2010-01-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Hopper	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Shows extra s!s!s after seconds, Dont know how to get this bug.

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Hexocon (danninl) wrote on 2010-01-29:

Seconds!s!s!.jpg Edit (44.2 KiB, image/jpeg)

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Daniel Bell (danielbell) wrote on 2010-01-29:

This is a bug with font rendering. It doesn't currently remove the previous text - instead just writes on top of it.

If you have some text that is less than what was written before it, there is an issue in which remnants are shown.

Changed in frogger:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Daniel Bell (danielbell) wrote on 2010-02-26:

i've just committed revision 27 into the legacy which should fix this. Its a very dirty fix (more like a hack) but it should do the trick until I have time to research a better implementation for writing text.

Basically the way text is written to the screen with pygame is that it just writes on top of the surface - and if there is text in that position it just writes over it. As a result if the text that was there before you write is longer than what you currently wish to write, then remnants of the previous text will appear.

The "fix" is that whenever we write text we add a few spaces at the end - hopefully overwriting the remnants.