The 2008 Winter Scripting Games
Beginner Event 2: True Type
Important: The deadline for this event has passed. Solutions are available in VBScript, Windows PowerShell, and Perl. |
In the True Type event competitors are asked to read a series of keys from the Microsoft Windows system registry.
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About This Event
Division | Beginner |
Deadline | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 (8:00 AM PST) |
Points Awarded | 10 |
Event Scenario
Before you get started on this event remember: playing with the registry can be hazardous to your system health. So what’s this event all about? Playing with the registry. But don’t worry, you won’t be asked to write anything to the registry, you simply need to read some values. This won’t change your system at all or mess up anything – assuming, of course, you follow the instructions for this event correctly.
In this event we’re interested in finding out which fonts are installed on a computer. We’ll give you a hint: the fonts are stored in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion. But we don’t want just any fonts; we want only the TrueType fonts. How can you tell a TrueType font from a non-TrueType font? That’s easy: in the registry, TrueType fonts will include the phrase TrueType in parentheses immediately following the font name. In other words, a TrueType font will look like this:
Bauhaus 93 (TrueType)
To successfully complete this event, your script must display the following output:
| • | The names of all the TrueType fonts on the computer. |
| • | The number of TrueType fonts on the computer. |
| • | The total number of fonts on the computer. |
Your output should look something like this:
Lucida Bright (TrueType) Lucida Bright Demibold (TrueType) Lucida Bright Demibold Italic (TrueType) Lucida Bright Italic (TrueType) Lucida Calligraphy Italic (TrueType) Lucida Fax Regular (TrueType) TrueType: 419 Total: 451