Introduction to Color Programming Topics for Cocoa

The color classes let you specify colors and let users choose colors.

Organization of This Document

This topic contains the following articles:

• About Color Spaces describes what color spaces are and which ones are available in the Application Kit.

• About Color Lists describes what color lists are and how they’re used.

• Working With Color Spaces discusses how you can create and convert colors using color-space objects and names and how you can create custom color spaces.

• Accessing a Color’s Components describes how to retrieve a color’s individual components.

• Accessing System Colors describes how to access colors that are controlled by user preferences.

• Using the System Control Tint describes how to use the system-wide control tint in your custom views and control cells.

• Choosing Colors With Color Wells and Color Panels describes how to let users select colors using color wells and the color panel.

• Choosing the Color Pickers in a Color Panel describes how to choose which color pickers are available in the color panel and which one is selected.

• Adding Custom Color Pickers to a Color Panel describes how to add color pickers to the color panel.

• Subclassing NSColor describes how to create custom subclasses of NSColor.

• Storing NSColor in User Defaults describes how to store colors in an application’s user defaults.