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Preset Colors

Author
Travis Kirton

Tags
color

Preset Colors

There are fifteen preset colors you can call on. These colors map to the same values as the presets in UIKit.

For example, in C4 you can use the red variable insted of UIColor.redColor.

let color = red

Check out the use of fallthrough and how to have multiple values for a switch case.

Example

//we use an array of shapes and for() loops to set styles
let colors = [black, darkGray, lightGray, gray, red, green, blue,
              cyan, yellow, magenta, orange, purple, brown, white, clear]
let labels = ["black", "darkGray", "lightGray", "gray", "red", "green", "blue",
              "cyan", "yellow", "magenta", "orange", "purple", "brown", "white", "clear"]

//create a frame for building each shape
let frame = Rect(0, 0, self.canvas.width*0.96, self.canvas.height/18.0)

//create a point that we can update to se the position of each object
let dy = Vector(x: 0, y: canvas.height/16)
var center = Point(canvas.center.x, dy.y)

let f = Font(name: "Helvetica", size: 16.0)!
//for every shape, update its linewidth, position and add it to the canvas
for i in 0..<15 {
    let shape = Rectangle(frame: frame)
    shape.fillColor = colors[i]
    shape.center = center
    canvas.add(shape)

    let label = TextShape(text: labels[i], font: f)!

    //all labels will be white except white, clear, yellow, green and cyan
    switch labels[i] {
    case "yellow", "green", "cyan":
        shape.lineWidth = 0.0
        fallthrough
    case "white", "clear", "yellow", "green", "cyan":
        label.fillColor = C4Purple
    default:
        label.fillColor = white
        shape.lineWidth = 0.0
    }

    label.center = shape.bounds.center
    shape.add(label)

    center += dy
}

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