ColorToBrushConverter
Although it took me 2 minutes to create this morning after searching for 2 minutes -- I thought I'd post this:
(I needed a Color to SolidColorBrush converter so that I could display the actual physical color rather than the name)
public class ColorToBrushConverter : IValueConverter
{
#region IValueConverter Members
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
if (value is Color)
{
return new SolidColorBrush((Color)value);
}
return null;
}
public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
{
throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented.");
}
#endregion
}
Although very simple, it was very useful in this situation:
I have an object with a property of type Color:
public Color Color
{
get { return _color; }
set { _color = value; RaisePropertyChanged("Color"); }
}
I wanted to bind a rectangle with the color rather than just the name of the color:
<Rectangle Fill="{Binding Color, Converter={StaticResource myColorToBrushConverter}}" Width="20" Height="20" />
I created an instance of the converter in the local resources:
<ListView.Resources>
<local:ColorToBrushConverter x:Key="myColorToBrushConverter" />
</ListView.Resources>
And made sure I added the clr namespace to the XAML file:
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:WPFCheckBoxDemo"
And here it is in a simple list:
More on the list and why I was doing this in a later post ...
