From 95da0171a009e5e30848c61a377a4dbd0693bc8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mfranz <mfranz>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:25:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bark if the requested font isn't a texture font. A more
 graceful recovery doesn't buy us much, as the font is only set at
 initialization time and not changeable later. Better tell the user
 immediately that he goofed.

---
 src/Cockpit/hud.cxx | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Cockpit/hud.cxx b/src/Cockpit/hud.cxx
index a9e578201..e8497e347 100644
--- a/src/Cockpit/hud.cxx
+++ b/src/Cockpit/hud.cxx
@@ -766,6 +766,9 @@ int fgHUDInit( fgAIRCRAFT * /* current_aircraft */ )
 
     FGFontCache *fc = globals->get_fontcache();
     HUD_Font = fc->getTexFont(fgGetString("/sim/hud/font/name", "Helvetica.txf"));
+    if (!HUD_Font)
+        throw sg_throwable(string("/sim/hud/font/name is not a texture font"));
+
     HUD_TextSize = fgGetFloat("/sim/hud/font/size", 10);
 
     HUDtext = new fntRenderer();
-- 
2.39.5