List all Fonts

[alecjcook]

Hi,

   What do I call programatically to get a list of all available fonts in LabVIEW please?

Cheers, Alec

[LogMAN]

If you don't mind .NET try this:

 

 

Not sure if there is a build-in solution for that.

[hooovahh]

The previous solution is probably better than mine, but I can think of an alternate way.  Fonts are installed in Windows in the following path %windir%\fonts  You can probably perform a list files finding all installed fonts there.  I'm not sure if fonts can be installed into a location other than that, and if it can then that is a reason the .Net method might be preferred.

[ensegre]

I would be looking at something related to <lvdir>/resource/dialog/PreferencesDialog/PreferencePages/prefPage_Misc.vi, but haven't yet figured out what.

 

[bmoyer]

Or you can get the fonts using the Windows registry.

Get Fonts Installed.vi

[ensegre]

[ShaunR]

xlsfonts.png

Won't work on Windows.

If you don't mind .NET try this:

 

GetFontList.png

 

Not sure if there is a build-in solution for that.

Only works on Windows

 

 

 

Lets see who cares about what

Edited July 15, 2015 by ShaunR

[LogMAN]

Lets see who cares about what

 

Let's care about anyone

 

 

Alternatively don't care about anyone...

 

 

but that's no fun

[eberaud]

Or you can get the fonts using the Windows registry.

 

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

[paul_cardinale]

Aggg!  I can't remember how to get a snippet from LAVAG.  What's the trick?

[ooth]

Maybe try this

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Feedback-on-NI-Community/How-do-I-get-a-snippet-from-the-board-into-my-block-diagram/m-p/3763571#M15575

 

[hooovahh]

Sorry I can't get them to work either.  Sometimes LAVA's servers will do weird things with compression or resizing, and in the process it might strip out the meta data that is the VI file.  Once we noticed this, these settings were turned off but it is possible these were back when that was an issue.

[bmoyer]

I just created a new snippet to test hooovahh's explanation.  Does this one work for you?

Edit:  Trying my example didn't work for me either.  I used to be able to do it in Internet Explorer but newer web browsers don't seem to support this anymore.

Edited June 20, 2023 by bmoyer

[hooovahh]

I'll ping the site admin.

[paul_cardinale]

Here's what I came up with.  Don't know if the Unix target works.

Get Font Names.vi

[paul_cardinale]

Unfortunately, "Get Font Names.vi" doesn't work properly on a Mac: The list returned includes names of fonts that aren't available, and is missing some that are available.

[Librafoodie]

On 6/24/2023 at 7:09 PM, paul_cardinale said:

Unfortunately, "Get Font Names.vi" doesn't work properly on a Mac: The list returned includes names of fonts that aren't available, and is missing some that are available.

Oh, that's not good to know about how to get rid of man moobs that "Get Font Names.vi" doesn't work properly on a Mac. 

But we can hope that the problem will be resolved soon.

Edited July 4, 2023 by Librafoodie

[paul_cardinale]

This seems to work OK.  But the Mac version is rather slow.

Get Font Names.vi

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

Unfortunately, the LabVIEW internal manager function that would return the list of enumerated fonts is not exported from the LabVIEW runtime. That would have been a lot easier and platform independent.

[paul_cardinale]

Do you know of a way to invoke the font dialog?

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

4 hours ago, paul_cardinale said:

Do you know of a way to invoke the font dialog?

Actually, there is no direct way to call it that I would know of, but it should be possible to send the according menu command to LabVIEW. But what do you want to do then? This is not a vi, but an internal LabVIEW dialog. It does use a front panel resource like what VIs use but it is not a VI, the entire programmatic handling is a C code function.

Edited June 28, 2023 by Rolf Kalbermatter

[paul_cardinale]

Is there really a menu command that would invoke the font dialog?

What would it be?