Q: Pantone colors are great, but how do I access them from my program?
Orca Starbuck
Cambridge, MA
A: NeXTSTEP 3.0 introduces a new Objective-C class called NXColorList, which NeXTSTEP uses to manage color lists. By default, NeXT-STEP only comes with one color list Ð Pantone Ð but you can create your own.
To access a Pantone color by number, you must first get the id of an NXColorList object associated with the list. Use:
id plist = [NXColorList findColorListNamed:"PANTONE"];Then, to access color "5-3", you can use:
NXColor pcolor = [plist colorNamed:"5-3"];To see the names of all the Pantone colors, try:
int i;
for(i=0;i<[plist colorCount];i++){
printf("color #%d is %s\n",[plist nameOfColorAt:i]);
}