How to convert string to color

[andie]

Hi Guys,

Just wondering whether it is possible to convert a string into
System.Drawing.Colour object.

For example:

"Black" will match to System.Drawing.Color.Black, etc etc etc

I notice that it is possible using Color.FromName(string psName) in
..NET framework. Unfortunately, Color.FromName is not supported in .Net
Compact Framework.

The situation is as follow: We create an xml file that contains font
properties for all of the Controls. Then, we extract the color value
from the xml file and we need to convert this into Color object.

Regards,
Andie

 

[andie]

Hey,

Thanks to opennetcf library. You can convert a string to a Color object
by calling:

string lsColor = "Blue"
Color loForeColor = (Color)
typeof(System.Drawing.Color).GetProperty(lsColor).GetValue(null, null);

 

[Lonifasiko]

Even better and simpler:

txt1.ForeColor = OpenNETCF.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml("Navy")

Take a look at this post. I read colors from a .config file, instead of
an .xml:

http://groups.google.es/group/micro...argb+sergey+Opennetcf&rnum=1#9e918c828abe807b

What structure do you have in your XML file? How do you read it? Just
curiosity because a few months ago I tried the same as you. Finally ent
to .config file.

Regards.

 

[andie]

I use the following XML structure and read each of the node and store
it to IDictionary<string, string> object for future reference. It is
equivalent with the use of Resource file.

<doc>
<res>
<data name="InfoLabelForeColor">
<value>Black</value>
<used>Y</used>
</data>
</res>
</doc>

 

[Lonifasiko]

Ok. Thanks.

Maybe one day I'll switch my .config file to XML.

Regards.