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Urgent: How to get Fonts Directory - Thanks
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10/07/2000 16:20:50
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00390425
Message ID:
00390474
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>>>>Hi all, I need to knows where are fonts in the client machine and how to register new fonts in the distribution or programmatically.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance!!!!!!
>>>
>>>While Doug's correct that in most cases the directory is WINDOWS\FONTS, it may not be necessarily true in every case. The Windows Script Host can retrieve this information this way:
oShell = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
>>>lcfontdir = oShell.SpecialFolders.Item("Fonts")
>>
>>Or you can just use:
>>
>>lcFontDir = GETENV("windir")+"\fonts"
>>
>>if you don't want to wait for the WSH to get rolling or don't have it installed.
>
>Then use the registry or Win32 API... I recommend using an installer that handles the process properly and checks permissions, etc - NT and especially Win2K are likely going to puke on you dumping stuff into system directories.

True enough. Essentially, that's all the WSH is doing, is going to the registry to get this info, correct?
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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