Data Conversion

So far we have used data binding where the type of data matches the output type (for example String and Label or Entry). Often it will be desirable to present data that is not already in the correct format. To do this the binding package provides a number of helpful conversion functions.

Most commonly this will be used to convert different types of data into strings for displaying in Label or Entry widgets. See in the code how we can convert a Float to String using binding.FloatToString. The original value can be edited by moving the slider. Each time the data changes it will run the conversion code and update any connected widgets.

It is also possible to use format strings to add more natural output for the user interface. You can see that our short binding is also converting a Float to String but by using a WithFormat helper we can pass a format string (similar to the fmt package) to provide a custom output.

package main

import (
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/app"
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/container"
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/data/binding"
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"
)

func main() {
	myApp := app.New()
	w := myApp.NewWindow("Conversion")

	f := binding.NewFloat()
	str := binding.FloatToString(f)
	short := binding.FloatToStringWithFormat(f, "%0.0f%%")
	f.Set(25.0)

	w.SetContent(container.NewVBox(
		widget.NewSliderWithData(0, 100.0, f),
		widget.NewLabelWithData(str),
		widget.NewLabelWithData(short),
	))

	w.ShowAndRun()
}

Lastly in this section we will look at list data.