Possible bug using non system fonts

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Guest

Hi there.

I've for the past few days been experimenting with the use of non system
fonts via the PrivateFontCollection.AddFontFile() method.

If i do something like this:
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection pfc = new
System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection();
pfc.AddFontFile("FREE3OF9.TTF");

FontFamily fam = new FontFamily("Free 3 of 9", pfc);
Font f = new Font(fam, 10F);
this.listBox1.Items.Add(f);
}

and clicks the button about 5 times or so, the font objects get messed up
and thrwos an exception in, among others, the name property.

Any suggestions?
 
What exception?

Each time you click the button, it creates a NEW font collection. Is
that what you intend? What if you declared the pfc variable in a
global location and only instantiate it once?

Just some random thoughts

Chris
 
Actually I've just solved the problem some hours ago. I didn't know that the
font objects needed the FontCollection, so I only declared the FontCollection
locally, and when it got out of scope and got collected by the garbage
collector - the font objects got messed up.

But thanks for the suggestions.

Best regards
Thomas Rene Sidor
 
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