wine users - Oct 2011 - Locating .tff or .fon file for fonts in C:\Windows\Font

Normally each font has entry in the registry under
HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts whereby the
registry Name is the font name and the registry Data value is the filename of
the font (for example courier.ttf).

In my app I use the facename from the LOGFONT structure and the above registry
entries to determine the associated ttf file.

When I add a font to the C:\Windows\font, the font correctly appears as an
available font in the font dialog, but the entry is not listed in
HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts. My question is how
do I determine the font file (*.ttf or *.fon) for the fonts in C:\Windows\Font?

Could you have your app read the font files in %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts directly to
determine their names and whether they are *.ttf format or *.fon format as well
as using registry values (that may or may not be there)? That way you get all
the font files in the %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts folder as well as any fonts in an
obscure folder referenced by the registry. Perhaps even register any font file
in %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts not already registered in the registry.

There was (maybe still is) a bug in WineTricks that does not register font files
that it installs. So you definitely want a method not dependent on the registry
(you've seen what things dependent on the registry do, right?). Maybe even
let the user pick whether they want the program to scan the %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts
folder to find fonts (one optional paramether), register font files found in the
%SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts folder not already registered (another optional parameter),
use the registry to find fonts (another optional parameter), and maybe even
delete registry values that reference non-existant font files (another optional
parameter). And so that the user can have any one of those parameters on or off
(as opposed to only getting to pick one parameter). I don't know your
intentions, but those could be command line options and/or check box options,
etc.

Perhaps the ttx dev team could give you a hand parsing font files directly? Or
at least view their source code?

Cheers,
Jake

jwong wrote:
> When I add a font to the C:\Windows\font, the font correctly appears as an
available font in the font dialog, but the entry is not listed in
HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Fonts. My question is how
do I determine the font file (*.ttf or *.fon) for the fonts in C:\Windows\Font?
Wine regenerates that registry tree only once on startup. Exit Wine and restart
it.