matthias_k
3rd June 2003 16:57 UTC

Registering fonts with Windows...
Hey there,

I need to register some fonts distributed along with my program.

The problem is that the registry key where the font strings are located differs between Win NT based Windows versions and Win9x based Windows versions.

I searched the archive to find a solution and found a tutorial on how to retrieve the current Windows version.

Well that's fine, but I would need to write syntax like:
if( version == win_nt ) { do this; }
else { do that; }

AFAIK there IS no equivalent to the if-statement in NSIS scripting language, so how can I switch a statement?

Joost Verburg
3rd June 2003 17:22 UTC

There is.

Example:

ReadRegStr $R0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion

StrCmp $R0 "" 0 winnt

  ...code for Windows 9x...

Goto done

winnt:

  ...code for Windows NT...

done:

kichik
3rd June 2003 18:46 UTC

Instead of the plug-in you can use this code to register fonts:

!include WinMessages.nsh

System::Call "GDI32::AddFontResourceA(t) i ('fontname.fon') .s"
Pop $0
# $0 is zero if the function failed
SendMessage ${HWND_BROADCAST} ${WM_FONTCHANGE} 0 0

!include WinMessages.nsh

System::Call "GDI32::RemoveFontResourceA(t) i ('fontname.fon') .s"
Pop $0
# $0 is zero if the function failed
SendMessage ${HWND_BROADCAST} ${WM_FONTCHANGE} 0 0

Afrow UK
3rd June 2003 19:26 UTC

Hi Matt
I'm guessing that's the D-Day Matthias?


-Stu :)

matthias_k
3rd June 2003 20:02 UTC

Thanks for your replies.

Hi Matt
I'm guessing that's the D-Day Matthias?

Afrow UK
3rd June 2003 20:33 UTC

Originally posted by matthias_k
Thanks for your replies.


Sorry, no. I'm probably just another Matthias :)

matthias_k
3rd June 2003 21:14 UTC

NSIS rocks!