With reference to a previous question .Net maui: How to reference a color in a binding?
I have a CollectionView, bound to an ObservableCollection populated from a SQLite databaee.
I want to display each row according to a color string held in the database table
However, I only want to store the colour value as a string.
Is it possible to convert this string to a Color within the binding or call a function to do this?
So for instance:
<Label Text="{Binding Name}"
TextColor="{Binding ConvertStringToColor(ItemColor)}" />
Where ItemColor is a string in my collection model and can be bound to.
There is a class named ColorTypeConverter
which can be used to convert a string to the color. Such as:
ColorTypeConverter converter = new ColorTypeConverter();
Color color = (Color)(converter.ConvertFromInvariantString("red"));
So you can use the two line codes in a binding's converter or somewhere.