Help with Visual C# Combo Boxes

[Kyle Biro]

I've created a combo box and I'm trying to add all the installed fonts to it but nothing shows up when I run the program.
I also have another combo box that should add the numbers 10 to 75 to represent font sizes.

I'm fairly new to C# and I'm just stuck with this. Also, please forgive any formatting mistakes I make as I'm new to the forums. Any help would be appreciated.

How I attempt to get the fonts and add them to the combo box.

C#:

void InstalledFonts() {     InstalledFontCollection fonts = new InstalledFontCollection();     for (int i = 1; i < fonts.Families.Length; i++)     {         tb_Font.Items.Add(fonts.Families[i].Name);     } }

How I try to add the numbers to the combo box

C#:

void FontSize()  {     for (int fntSize = 10; fntSize <= 75; fntSize++)     {         tb_FontSize.Items.Add(fntSize.ToString());     } }

I do have a method that calls InstalledFonts() and FontSize() when the program loads.

[rdrake]

I no longer have a Windows machine and thus no access to VS, but I can hopefully point you in the right direction...

Kyle Biro @ Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:49 pm wrote:

I've created a combo box and I'm trying to add all the installed fonts to it but nothing shows up when I run the program.

What do you mean by "nothing shows up"? Does it add anything to the combo box? Are you able to see a number of blank spaces where the text should be? A picture may be helpful.

I would make use of foreach, rather than for. In this following case you are starting the index at 1 rather than 0.

C#:

void InstalledFonts() {     InstalledFontCollection fonts = new InstalledFontCollection();     for (int i = 1; i < fonts.Families.Length; i++)     {         tb_Font.Items.Add(fonts.Families[i].Name);     } }

Try running this:

C#:

private void InstalledFonts() {         InstalledFontCollection fonts = new InstalledFontCollection();         foreach (FontFamily family in fonts.Families)         {                 Console.WriteLine(family.Name);         } }

Does it print a list of fonts to the console? If not, something else is going on. If so, adapt it to use your combobox and see what happens.

I would do the following, avoiding the loop entirely:

C#:

private void InstalledFonts() {         InstalledFontCollection fonts = new InstalledFontCollection();         tb_Font.DataSource = fonts.Families;         tb_Font.DisplayMember = "Name"; }

MSDN has some helpful information regarding fonts here.

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention. The great thing about using DataSource is you can do something like this to get the FontFamily object back from the list.

C#:

FontFamily selected = (FontFamily)tb_Font.SelectedItem

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