Stucked a bit with a pretty simple problem.
In my app - I have a ComboBox with a list of FontAwesome icons.
I describe them like unicode in a text property of a TextBlock.
Like:
<ComboBoxItem Padding="2">
<TextBlock Style="{StaticResource FontAwesome}"
Text=""/>
</ComboBoxItem>
All good, I see the list of icons in the ComboBox.
Now, as a first item, I want to see the current assigned to the object icon, so I do like this:
<ComboBoxItem Padding="2">
<TextBlock Style="{StaticResource FontAwesome}"
Text="{Binding Icon}" />
</ComboBoxItem>
The binded value Icon holds string Icon = "& #xf039;" (without the space) and now, my first item, which is binded to Icon displays not the icon, but the unicode value of the icon.
I pretty much can understand that it is happening because of it is getting saved as a string and is getting passed as a string, literally, but what can be a workaround from here? Include a converter I suppose would not help. But What can help is to save value of Icon as some else, instead of string and what can be represented as a Text property.
Will be very appreciated for some clues.