UIColor: Difference between revisions

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UIColor is a class representing a solid color or a pattern, similar to brushes in Windows GDI.

Predefined colors

UIColor defines a list of commonly accessed colors. They can be received using +[UIColor someColor], as listed below:

Documented solid colors

`blackColor` 0.000	`darkGrayColor` 0.333	`lightGrayColor` 0.667	`whiteColor` 1.000	`grayColor` 0.500
`redColor` 1.00, 0.00, 0.00	`greenColor` 0.00, 1.00, 0.00	`blueColor` 0.00, 0.00, 1.00	`cyanColor` 0.00, 1.00, 1.00	`yellowColor` 1.00, 1.00, 0.00
`magentaColor` 1.00, 0.00, 1.00	`orangeColor` 1.00, 0.50, 0.00	`purpleColor` 0.50, 0.00, 0.50	`brownColor` 0.60, 0.40, 0.20	`clearColor` 0.000 [0% alpha]
`lightTextColor` 1.000 [60% alpha]	`darkTextColor` 0.000

Undocumented solid colors

`tableSeparatorDarkColor` 0.66, 0.67, 0.68	`tableSeparatorLightColor` 0.88, 0.88, 0.88	`tableBackgroundColor` 1.00, 1.00, 1.00	`tableSelectionColor` 0.16, 0.43, 0.83
`sectionListBorderColor` 0.52, 0.56, 0.58 [60% alpha]	`sectionHeaderBackgroundColor` 0.90, 0.93, 0.99 [80% alpha]	`sectionHeaderOpaqueBackgroundColor` 0.92, 0.94, 0.99	`sectionHeaderBorderColor` 0.85, 0.87, 0.91
`tableCellBlueTextColor` 0.22, 0.33, 0.53	`tableCellGrayTextColor` 0.50, 0.50, 0.50	`textFieldAtomBlueColor` 0.16, 0.34, 1.00	`textFieldAtomPurpleColor` 0.41, 0.00, 0.74
`infoTextOverPinStripeTextColor` 0.30, 0.34, 0.42

Patterns

	`groupTableViewBackgroundColor`
	`viewFlipsideBackgroundColor`
	`underPageBackgroundColor` (Private)

CSS colors

Available in	2.0 – 3.1
Signature	`-(NSString*)styleString`

UIColors can be converted to CSS colors by the -styleString method. For example, [[UIColor lightTextColor] styleString] gives @"rgba(255,255,255,153)".

References

Official documentation: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIColor_Class/Reference/Reference.html
Extra header: http://github.com/kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks/blob/master/UIKit/UIColor2.h

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 [[UIColor]] is a class representing a solid color or a pattern, similar to brushes in Windows GDI.
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 * Official documentation: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/uikit/reference/UIColor_Class/Reference/Reference.html
 * Extra header: http://github.com/kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks/blob/master/UIKit/UIColor2.h
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