Re: Color settings

[Dennis Leeuw]

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Dennis Leeuw wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to control the colors with the predefined colors, 
> > something like:
> > defaults write NSGlobalDomain controlColor darkGrey
> > And of this one I am sure that it doesn't work :)
>
> I am not really sure if I like the idea or not, but it kept me thinking. 
> And yes it would be easyly doable (If you accept to switch to American 
> instead of British English :-))
>
> We could just add a few lines into [NSColor colorFromString:], when 
> everything else fails, to test if the given string (after adding "Color" 
> to it) is a class method of NSColor and than call this and return the 
> result.
>
> But what I would like more is to have another colour list, with well 
> know named colours and to just reference this in the default setting.
>
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain controlColor \ 
> {"ColorSpace"="NSNamedColorSpace"; "Catalog"="Named"; \ 
> "Color"="darkGray"; }
>
> Could you live with this solution as well? The benefit is that we don't 
> need to add any code that needs maintenance.

Hi Fred,

To be honest I am playing dumb user just to find out what works and what 
doesn't. It seems like setting the color with darkGrey or darkGreyColor 
doesn't work. Maybe it is just me expecting names to work :)

To respond on your ideas, I can imagine from a code point of view that 
you like the last one best. From a users point of view (but when we have 
a decent defaults.app/Preferences.app this might be overkill) I could 
imagine localizeable names for colors and a way to use them with the 
defaults command. But then again, how much code do you want to add to 
make a system userfriendly when an app can solve the problem...

So I guess leave it at it's current state... I will document that you 
can't use names with the defaults command and after 1.0.0 is released 
maybe we should think about it again.... ;)

Just a thought.

Dennis



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