Displaying and Selecting Fonts

[CMessineo]

Here is my problem:

I need to display a list of fonts (I do not know the size of the list ahead of time) and I need people to be able to select an item in the list. Obviously I can do the above with a simple list box, but I have left the most important part out.

I need to display each font in its 'actual font' (ie Arial in Arial, Helvetica in Helvetica, ...)

Does anyone have any ideas? I am desperate and feeling stupid. Thanks,

Chris

[Chris Eastwood]

You can either :

1. Use the CommonDialog control that comes with VB to popup the standard 'choose-font' dialog

or

2. Go to http://vbaccelerator.com and take a look at their owner-drawn combo control. There's some excellent examples that demonstrate how to show all the system fonts in a combo (just like in Word / FrontPage / other M$ programs).


Chris Eastwood

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[CMessineo]

Clint,

First, thanks for the speedy reply.

I probably should have been more specific. I am not trying to create a font picker (ala microsoft), but rather a list of fonts that I can programmatically control their display size, color, and order.

Chris