Help with fonts

[Shoke]

Hi,

I have a bunch of cool fonts in my program which i want to
distribute with the game, or else other computers can't
view them. I used Package and Deployment wizard to add the
fonts to my setup program, but when i setup and ran the program, the fonts still din't appear properly.

What can i do?

Thanks

[PJB]

I've never tried anything like that, but do the fonts have to goto a paticular directory in order to read them? Like my default font folder is C:\winnt\fonts
Like i say, i have no idea but it's a thought

[Shoke]

the font files are copied to c:\windows\fonts, which should be right. How can i register the fonts on the user's computer?

[Arcom]

This should be simple, just use the AddFontResource API...

Public Declare Function AddFontResource Lib "gdi32" Alias "AddFontResourceA" (ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long


Simply pass a font filename to lpFileName.
For example, to add Arial font, do this:

Dim lRet&
lRet& = AddFontResource("c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf")



NOTE: I haven't tried this myself, but I don't see any reason why this should not work.

[Arcom]

Me again :)

I've just found something at the MSDN Libray page(s).
Here's the link, check it out:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/psdk/gdi/fontext_9r51.htm

[Shoke]

THanks