From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-10-26T11:56:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Too Brief Before? -- fonts in win32

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:18:07AM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> FXRuby has FOX::FXFontDialog to pop up the font list. I don't know of
> any non-UI-based way of getting that information (other than reading
> the Fonts directory, but that's going to provide only limited
> information).

You can also do it with Ruby/Tk, which has the advantage of being
bundled with the Ruby distribution. For example:

  require 'tkfont'

  allMyFonts = TkFont.families

BTW I just tried this, and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was.
I've done a lot of Tkinter (Python) programming, and in Python you have
to at least instantiate a root window before you can get a list of
fonts. That always seemed kind of dumb to me.

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