C# : Persisting Font information

bonkey

Anyone able to give me a quick pointed on how to accomplish this?

Initially, I thought that I could just persist myFont.ToString(), but the Font object doesn't have a constructor which takes this string representation.

So then I saw the FontConverter class, but after a quick perusal of it, my suffering-from-lack-of-sleep brain is telling me that I still don't get it. I can see how to convert *from* a font, but not how to take that info and go back to one.

I'm sure its probably bloody simple....but I'm just having one of those days where things are just not making sense.

jc

bonkey

As per usuak...seconds after looking for help, you find what you're looking for in the first place.

        TypeConverter tc = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(Font));
        // to string
        string s = tc.ConvertToString(f);

        // back to Font
        Font f2 = (Font) tc.ConvertFromString(s);

That will do nicely.

uberwolf

ur welcome hate it when that happens