You need to instantiate the InstalledFontCollection because "Families" is
not a static property.
>>> import clr
>>> clr.AddReference('System.Drawing')
>>> from System.Drawing.Text import InstalledFontCollection
>>> for f in InstalledFontCollection().Families:
... print f.Name
... break
...
Agency FB
>>>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM, David McWright
<david.mcwri...@usbfmi.com>wrote:
> Hello All,
> I'm working through a book and one of the exercise involves
> building comboBox filled with the names of the installed
> FontFamilies. The code and error are:
>
> >>> import clr
> >>> clr.AddReference("System.Drawing")
> >>> from System.Drawing.Text import InstalledFontCollection
> >>> for f in InstalledFontCollection.Families:
> ... print f.Name
> ...
> ...
> TypeError: iteration over non-sequence of type getset_descriptor
>
> The MSDN says that InstalledFontCollection.Families should be an Array
> of FontFamily objects which I thought I could step through. What did
> I do wrong here?
>
> TIA,
> David
>
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