You can use ToString() to convert the 'FontWeight' to a string, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to reverse it. The only thing I can think to do is to write an IValueConverter function that converts between a string an a System.Windows.FontWeight
object. It would look something like the following, although I only added a few of the possible font weights:
[ValueConversion(typeof(string), typeof(System.Windows.FontWeight))]
public class FontConverter : IValueConverter
{
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
FontWeight fontWt;
switch (value.ToString())
{
case "Bold":
fontWt = FontWeights.Bold;
break;
case "ExtraBold":
fontWt = FontWeights.ExtraBold;
break;
case "Normal":
fontWt = FontWeights.Normal;
break;
case "Light":
fontWt = FontWeights.Light;
break;
default:
fontWt = FontWeights.Normal;
break;
}
return fontWt;
}
public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
FontWeight fontWt = (FontWeight)value;
return fontWt.ToString();
}
}
This would be able to be used in the XAML. If you only need the conversion in code, you could just use the Convert part of this as a function in code--something like
public System.Windows.FontWeight ConvertFontWeight(string strFontWeight) { // previous code }
Hope this helps!
Christine A. Piffat
