[IronPython] Error Iterating

[David DiCato]

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-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of David McWright
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:44 PM
To: users at 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

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