Convert string to Color in C#

c# .net xna
Kevin picture Kevin · Aug 2, 2010 · Viewed 140.6k times · Source

I am encountering a problem which is how do I convert input strings like "RED" to the actual Color type Color.Red in C#. Is there a good way to do this?

I could think of using a switch statement and cases statement for each color type but I don't think that is clever enough.

Answer

James Curran picture James Curran · Aug 2, 2010 
 Color red = Color.FromName("Red");

The MSDN doesn't say one way or another, so there's a good chance that it is case-sensitive. (UPDATE: Apparently, it is not.)

As far as I can tell, ColorTranslator.FromHtml is also.

If Color.FromName cannot find a match, it returns new Color(0,0,0);

If ColorTranslator.FromHtml cannot find a match, it throws an exception.

UPDATE:

Since you're using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Color, this gets a bit tricky:

using XColor = Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.Color;
using CColor = System.Drawing.Color;

 CColor clrColor = CColor.FromName("Red"); 
 XColor xColor = new XColor(clrColor.R, clrColor.G, clrColor.B, clrColor.A);

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