siggel
31st May 2011 12:40 UTC

Windows 7 font problem
Hi all,

I'm using FontName plugin to add fonts during installation, but problems occur on Windows 7 (on XP it is ok!). After installation the font is phyically located within the correct directory, but it does not appear in the SystemControl>Font overview. If I manually move the font into the directory using Windows Explorer - overwriting the already installed one - afterwards everything works fine. To me it looks as if the registration did not work out somehow.
What I'm doing is unpacking the font to $FONTS, running InstallTTF from the plugin, and a SendMessage like this

!include FontRegAdv.nsh
!include FontName.nsh
...
RequestExecutionLevel admin
...
Section
  SetShellVarContext all
  SetOutPath "$FONTS"
  File 'SOME PATH\FOO.TTF'
  StrCpy $FONT_DIR "$FONTS"
  !insertmacro InstallTTF 'SOME PATH\FOO.TTF'
  SendMessage ${HWND_BROADCAST} ${WM_FONTCHANGE} 0 0 /TIMEOUT=5000
SectionEnd

Any ideas why this does not work on Windows 7 but on XP?

Thanks,
siggel

siggel
14th June 2011 12:31 UTC

Unfortunately this issue cannot be reproduced once the font has been installed successfully. So just a vague idea:
Maybe the problem could be related to the functionality of Windows 7 to show or hide fonts? So is there a script for NSIS to force a font to be shown?