Question

I am using the System.Drawing tools to create a graphic. The graphic has a lot of text labels in it.

I create the font:

var font = new Font("Verdana", 10);

and then, for each label, make the text bold, or not using this:

font = new Font(font, FontStyle.Bold);
font = new Font(font, FontStyle.Regular);

I want to store all the text for the labels in a database along with font size and whether it is to be bold or not.

Say I return a list of values from a database like, for example:

10, bold

12, regular

10, bold,

14, bold

10, regular

and put those values in a list object with properties of myfontSize and myfontStyle and loop through the list … what is the best way to modify my System.Drawing font to reflect the changes in Font Size and Font Weight required in each iteration?

Answer 1

You haven’t really provided enough information to answer this question fully. However, without going into much detail in terms of how you get the list, if you have a list of font sizes/style then you would just iterate the collection and create a new font object e.g.

var fontCollection = new List<KeyValuePair<int, string>>();
fontCollection.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>(10, "Bold"));
fontCollection.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>(12, "Regular"));
fontCollection.Add(new KeyValuePair<int, string>(14, "Bold"));
foreach (var item in fontCollection)
{
    var font = new Font("Verdana", item.Key, (FontStyle)Enum.Parse(typeof(FontStyle), item.Value));
    // use font
}