Allegro unable to load font

Allegro unable to load font

Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

I am following the tutorials for allegro 5 and running into a problem. I copied this code from the guide, downloaded the font from the page and copied it to the folder with the executable per the page. When I run the program, I get the error the font could not be loaded. I assumed the download may have been corrupted so I googled and downloaded the font from the web and tried again. Still no luck. I tried using one of the fonts from my distro and it did not work. I checked the forums, and this thread suggests I may have a buggy version of allegro so I removed and reinstalled Allegro through package manager. Still no luck. Any ideas

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Edgar Reynaldo

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May 2007

See Current Working Directory.

You have to run the exe from the folder where it is located. CB will run it from a different directory, depending on whether or not you've changed your project structure.

To fix this permanently, and to offer a more flexible solution, you can change the current working directory yourself using allegro 5 :

ALLEGRO_PATH* p = al_get_standard_path(ALLEGRO_RESOURCES_PATH);
al_change_directory(al_path_cstr(p , ALLEGRO_NATIVE_PATH_SEP));
al_destroy_path(p);
p = 0;

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Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

Always something simple. Thanks.

Someone may want to take a look at the tutorial, this is what I get:

{"name":"611896","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/e\/5\/e5ea9d6646c847bb06e84e0f39672f54.png","w":1366,"h":768,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/e\/5\/e5ea9d6646c847bb06e84e0f39672f54"}