SOLVED: Dynamic Font Weight in Text Field

@jfranknichols

Mar '21

I can't find anything about how to programtically change font characteristics in a Text field (or label or anything.

All examples show hard coded like this:

Text("This is an extremely long text string that will never fit even the widest of phones")
    .font(.largeTitle)
    .foregroundColor(Color.red)

Can anyone suggest (or point me to) a way to do something like this (this doesn't work - duh):

  var weight = Font.weight.thin

  Text("hello world")
    .font(weight)

The use case is I want the end user to be able to customise the UI for my app using preferences. Think of the temes options in XCode. I know those are atrtibuted text, which is different. But, i want to do similar with plain text in forms with text, labels, etc.

TIA

@roosterboy HWS+

Mar '21

var weight: Font.Weight = .thin
var body: some View {
    Text("hello world")
        .font(Font.largeTitle.weight(weight))
}

@jfranknichols

Mar '21

@roosterboy, thank you very much. That exactly answers my question - now I feel stupid. So, next I need to figure out how to get @AppStorage to not get indigestion over it - LOL.

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