mjr27 / Itage.FontIcon

FontIcon implementation for WPF/netcoreapp3.0

Itage.FontIcon

A simplistic FontIcon control implementation for WPF/netcoreapp3.0.

This isn't actually a complete font icon library, it's rather a framework for building your own.

Example usage

Let's start with a simple font, called MyFont, located in file myfont.ttf containing a simple glyph with e900.

Adding package reference

dotnet add package Itage.FontIcon

Embedding font into assebly.

Let's place font file into Resources\Fonts\myfont.ttf and set its type to Resource

  <ItemGroup>
    <None Remove="Resources\Fonts\myfont.ttf" />
    <Resource Include="Resources\Fonts\myfont.ttf" />
  </ItemGroup>

Now it will be embedded into your executable or dll.

Making your own font icon

The icon control consists of two parts:

• Glyph enum
• Control class

Now let's write some actual code:

public enum MyFontIconType
{
    None = 0, // This is required
    MyGlyph = 0xe900, // This is the code of our unicode character we want to embed
}

public class MyFontIcon : BaseFontIcon<MyFontIconType>
{
    static MyFontIcon()
    {
        DefaultFontFamily = FontResourceHelper.MakeFontFamily(
            typeof(MyFontIcon).Assembly, "resources/fonts", "MyFont");
    }
    public MyFontIcon()
    {
        FontFamily = DefaultFontFamily;
    }
}

That's all!

Now you can use

<ns:MyFontIcon Icon="MyGlyph" />

in your views,