Converting a Color object to its string representation

John Hendrikx john.hendrikx at gmail.com
Sat Dec 9 21:34:41 UTC 2023


I think this is too niche to have Color provide.

Just make a utility method for whatever format you desire, instead of 
making Color responsible for half a dozen ways of formatting colors, and 
then probably still missing some format that someone needs.

Ticket should be closed as won't fix.

--John

On 09/12/2023 22:06, Michael Strauß wrote:
> I obviously meant to write withPrefix("#"), not withDelimiter("#")...
>
> On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 9:57 PM Michael Strauß <michaelstrau2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How would HexFormat work with Color, other than using an extremely
>> unwieldy syntax?
>>
>>      String formatted = HexFormat.of()
>>          .withDelimiter("#")
>>          .formatHex(new byte[] {
>>              (byte)(color.getRed() * 255.0f),
>>              (byte)(color.getGreen() * 255.0f),
>>              (byte)(color.getBlue() * 255.0f),
>>              (byte)(color.getOpacity() * 255.0f)
>>          });
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 9:40 PM David Alayachew <davidalayachew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Apologies - java.util.HexFormat
>>>
>>> That's what I get for firing from the hip, then looking afterwards.


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