[pyddr-discuss] Problems with folders

[David Bellows]

On Monday 14 July 2003 01:33 pm, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 06:47, David Bellows wrote:
> > I downloaded pydance7.2 and it appeared to install without any problems.
> > Everything seems to work fine if I have the folders option turned off.
> > However, when it's on and I have the sort set to "mix" I get the
> > following error when I try to go to the screen that has all the sim-files
> > listed:
> >

>
> You probably have a song with a mix tag of "", which Pygame 1.5.5 can't
> render properly. This bug was fixed in Pygame 1.5.6 (which unfortunately
> hasn't propogated to most distributions yet). It's also possible that
> the mix name contains Unicode or some other encoding that SDL_ttf can't
> render.
>
> Since you used the word "sim-files", I'm guessing you have DWIs? Then
> the mix name is decided entirely by the directory. What does your
> directory layout look like? (If you know it's not an encoding problem.)


OK, I did have some Unicode as well as "" mix names.  I corrected all of that 
(took a while) and now everything works fine.  The folders are a terrific 
addition.

David Bellows