Font Dialog on a form

[JH]

Hi,

I am trying to create a font dialog on a form and can't find how to create a
control that provides a list of installed fonts. Any clies would be very
welcome!

John

 

[Fred Boer]

Hello JH:

This might help:

http://www.lebans.com/fontcolordialog.htm

Cheers!
Fred Boer

 

[Guest]

There are two ways to do this. You could use the Common Dialog control. To
get this, go to the More Tools dropdown on the Toolbox toolbar and select
Microsoft Common Dialog. A little more info here:
http://www.alvechurchdata.co.uk/acccommon.htm

The downside to this is that you need to copy and register an ocx
(comdlg32.ocx) file to each client's PC. Anothewr solution is to use API's.
Here an article on how to do this:
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0061.htm

Barry

 

[JH]

Fred,

Many thanks, that does what I wanted.

John

 

[JH]

Barry,

Thanks for this, the API route looks more promising (and is the same code as
Fred pointed me to!).

John