Curt & David, Thanks for the help! Should have figured that one out. :)
On Jan 21, 11:08 pm, David DiCato <ddic...@microsoft.com> wrote: > You need to instantiate InstalledFontCollection in order to use its Families > field directly. The code sample you sent gets Families from the type > InstalledFontCollection, rather than an instance thereof, and thus tries to > iterate over a property descriptor. Try the following: > > >>> for f in InstalledFontCollection().Families: > > ... print f.Name > ... > > Good luck, > - David > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com > [mailto:users-boun...@lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of David McWright > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:44 PM > To: us...@lists.ironpython.com > Subject: [IronPython] Error Iterating > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > us...@lists.ironpython.comhttp://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > us...@lists.ironpython.comhttp://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
