Installing Fonts through a vbscript

[jkhilton]

Could somebody let me know if it is possible to install fonts onto a windows 2000,NT,98,95 etc. machine using a VBScript.
We need to create an installation progrma for a game we are creating and it has to install certain fonts if they are not on the machine already. Is this possible?


Thanks in advance


John

 

[browolf]

i think you can just copy them into the windows font directory.

CopyFile Method
Applies To: FileSystemObject Object
Copies one or more files from one location to another.

object.CopyFile ( source, destination[, overwrite] )

also could be useful:

FileExists Method
Applies To: FileSystemObject Object
Returns True if a specified file exists; False if it does not.
object.FileExists(filespec)
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[jkhilton]

thanks for the quick response, I will check that out, I just wasn't sure if when you install the font you need to add any registry entries or anything. if it works I'll post back to confirm.


John

 

[jkhilton]

The copy method may work with 95,98 etc. but with NT and 2000 we have tried this and it doesn't register the font.


John

 

[browolf]

this 'll sort u out:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=i...tf-8&selm=#obzr71yBHA.2376@tkmsftngp02&rnum=4

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[jkhilton]

much appreciated. I have checked this out and it is exactly what we weer after(with a few tweaks).

Thanks you very much.


John

 

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