SVN - A tutorial to keep your FoFiX (or FretsOnFire) updated

[trinidude4]

Required modules (python 2.4):

• PyGame:
  • win32
  • I can't find a working pygame package for pygame. If somebody can help, it is the only point missing in the Mac OS X instructions.
  • APT: python-pygame

The pygame package in fink, pygame-py24, doesn't work? I can't really test it because I don't use fink and I don't want to mess around with how I have things set up right now.

If you're trying to build it on a Leopard machine, pyobjc might give you problems. I'm gonna check how I got pyobjc installed on my machine. It's been a while since I had to install it.

Edit:
I might be way off here but this is worth a shot. You may need to install pyobjc 1.4 to get pygame to work on either a tiger or leopard machine. I don't think pyobjc 1.4 can be compiled on a leopard machine. It will work if compiled on a tiger machine and installed in leopard though. I found a precompiled version of pyobjc here: http://pythonmac.org/packages/py24-fat/dmg/pyobjc-1.4-python2.4-macosx10.4.dmg.
I don't know if the pkg installer will install it in the correct location so I extracted the necessary files and posted them here: http://www.mediafire.com/?m0djx5dmqyj
You just need to take the PyObjC folder and PyObjC.pth and put them in your python site-packages directory.
Then you can try to see if pygame works.

[slugsey]

I got the program up and running using the packages from fink (including pygame). However, I can only see the main menu screen for every theme. When I select one of the options, I don't get any text or menus showing up.

Any idea what the problem could be?

[trinidude4]

I got the program up and running using the packages from fink (including pygame). However, I can only see the main menu screen for every theme. When I select one of the options, I don't get any text or menus showing up.

Any idea what the problem could be?

Are you using python 2.5 with py-opengl 2?

[caiowatanabe]

sorry for the question but i'm new with this stuff...

i did the checkout but, there is not a FretsOnFire.exe file to run the game...

what can i do?

[slugsey]

Are you using python 2.5 with py-opengl 2?

I'm using Python 2.5.1 and py-opengl claims to be version 2.0.1.09. The problem looks like it has to do with fonts, because I can see everything that is just a picture, but none of the menu text or song selection text. I can still select options in the menus, but I can't see what I am selecting. No errors show up in the error console except for a malloc error I got when I tried to play a song and the game crashed. Are there any text libraries that need to be installed? Or is that part of OpenGL?

EDIT: I got the text showing up now by installing py-opengl version 3.x (not available from fink). Unfortunately, when I go to play a song I hear cheering but nothing shows up and the game freezes with a bunch of malloc errors

[LameAxe]

sorry for the question but i'm new with this stuff...

i did the checkout but, there is not a FretsOnFire.exe file to run the game...

what can i do?

If you have set it up properly (following the instructions on the first post) you should just be able to double click on FretsOnFire.py from the src folder and it will run the game, there is no need to worry about the FretsOnFire.exe as you have to build that yourself

[caiowatanabe]

sorry for the question but i'm new with this stuff...

i did the checkout but, there is not a FretsOnFire.exe file to run the game...

what can i do?

If you have set it up properly (following the instructions on the first post) you should just be able to double click on FretsOnFire.py from the src folder and it will run the game, there is no need to worry about the FretsOnFire.exe as you have to build that yourself

i did what u said but, when i click on FretsOnFire.py, this screen appears

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2895 ... honss7.png

[LameAxe]

sorry for the question but i'm new with this stuff...

i did the checkout but, there is not a FretsOnFire.exe file to run the game...

what can i do?

If you have set it up properly (following the instructions on the first post) you should just be able to double click on FretsOnFire.py from the src folder and it will run the game, there is no need to worry about the FretsOnFire.exe as you have to build that yourself

i did what u said but, when i click on FretsOnFire.py, this screen appears

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2895 ... honss7.png

I assume you have installed all the required modules as per http://code.google.com/p/fofix/wiki/Req ... rceModules and you have always run an SVN update after checking out FoFix

[caiowatanabe]

downloaded the modules from the first post and checked for updates sometimes

[trinidude4]

Are you using python 2.5 with py-opengl 2?

I'm using Python 2.5.1 and py-opengl claims to be version 2.0.1.09. The problem looks like it has to do with fonts, because I can see everything that is just a picture, but none of the menu text or song selection text. I can still select options in the menus, but I can't see what I am selecting. No errors show up in the error console except for a malloc error I got when I tried to play a song and the game crashed. Are there any text libraries that need to be installed? Or is that part of OpenGL?

EDIT: I got the text showing up now by installing py-opengl version 3.x (not available from fink). Unfortunately, when I go to play a song I hear cheering but nothing shows up and the game freezes with a bunch of malloc errors

You can still use pyopengl 2 if you use a work around for now. You have to edit Font.py to force it to use the render24 function instead of the render function. The easiest way to do that is to change any "2.4" you find in Font.py to "2.5".

I avoid using pyopengl 3 for now since it makes the game laggy.

[caiowatanabe]

I assume you have installed all the required modules as per http://code.google.com/p/fofix/wiki/Req ... rceModules and you have always run an SVN update after checking out FoFix

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am i supposed to do like the google steps?

[LameAxe]

I assume you have installed all the required modules as per http://code.google.com/p/fofix/wiki/Req ... rceModules and you have always run an SVN update after checking out FoFix

am i supposed to do like the google steps?

I followed them and I have the latest version up and running without any problems

[caiowatanabe]

I assume you have installed all the required modules as per http://code.google.com/p/fofix/wiki/Req ... rceModules and you have always run an SVN update after checking out FoFix

am i supposed to do like the google steps?

I followed them and I have the latest version up and running without any problems

thx it worked but look how the game looks

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/768/fofixznz9.png

[slugsey]

Oh, heh making those changes to Font.py worked beatifully. I don't know about all of those hardcoded checks for version though :p. Thanks a lot for the help. I guess it does work for OS X after all.

EDIT: OK it hasn't given up the fight yet. Now the guitar track doesn't sound while playing a song. Or am I just an idiot and managed to change some setting in a menu?

[RedShadow]

Is it posible to use Python 3.0??

And after i got python what do i do??