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NSColorPanel

Authors

Scott Christley (scottc@net-community.com)
System generic color panel

Copyright: (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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  1. Software documentation for the NSColorPanel class
  2. Software documentation for the NSApplication(NSColorPanel) category

Software documentation for the NSColorPanel class

NSColorPanel : NSPanel

Declared in:
AppKit/NSColorPanel.h
Availability: OpenStep

TODO Description

Instance Variables

Method summary

dragColor: withEvent: fromView: 

+ (BOOL) dragColor: (NSColor*)aColor withEvent: (NSEvent*)anEvent fromView: (NSView*)sourceView;
Availability: OpenStep

Drags aColor frome sourceView at the location give by the event anEvent ( [NSView -convertPoint:fromView:] ). The type declare into the pasteboard is NSColorPboardType

See Also: [NSView -convertPoint:fromView:] [NSView-dragImage:at:offset:event:pasteboard:source:slideBack:

setPickerMask: 

+ (void) setPickerMask: (int)mask;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

setPickerMode: 

+ (void) setPickerMode: (int)mode;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

sharedColorPanel 

+ (NSColorPanel*) sharedColorPanel;
Availability: OpenStep

Creates (if needed) and returns the shared NSColorPanel.

sharedColorPanelExists 

+ (BOOL) sharedColorPanelExists;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns whether the NSColorPanel has been already created.

accessoryView 

- (NSView*) accessoryView;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the NSColorPanel's accessory view if it exists, nil otherwise.

See Also: -setAccessoryView:

alpha 

- (float) alpha;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the alpha value of the NSColorPanel. Returns 1.0 if the NSColorPanel does not show alpha

See Also: -showsAlpha -setShowsAlpha:

attachColorList: 

- (void) attachColorList: (NSColorList*)aColorList;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

color 

- (NSColor*) color;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the current NSColor displayed by the NSColorPanel.

See Also : -setColor:

detachColorList: 

- (void) detachColorList: (NSColorList*)aColorList;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

isContinuous 

- (BOOL) isContinuous;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns whether the NSColorPanel continuously sends its action message.

See Also: -setContinuous:-setAction: -setTarget:

mode 

- (int) mode;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns the current mode of the NSColorPanel.

See Also: -setMode:

setAccessoryView: 

- (void) setAccessoryView: (NSView*)aView;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the accessoryView to a view. The old view (if exists) will be remove (and release). You need to retain it if you want to use it later

See Also: -accessoryView

setAction: 

- (void) setAction: (SEL)aSelector;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the NSColorPanl action method to aSelector The action message is usally send in -setColor: , when the picker is updated, when a new picker is show, when the alpha is changed or when one of the color well at the bottom is selected.

setColor: 

- (void) setColor: (NSColor*)aColor;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the NSColor displayed to aColor. This method post a NSColorPanelColorDidChangeNotification notification if needed.

See Also: -color [NSColorWell -setColor:]

setContinuous: 

- (void) setContinuous: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets whether the NSColorPanel sends continuously action messages

See Also: -isContinuous

setMode: 

- (void) setMode: (int)mode;
Availability: OpenStep

Set the NSColorPanel mode to mode.

See Also: -mode

setShowsAlpha: 

- (void) setShowsAlpha: (BOOL)flag;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets whether the NSColorPanel shows alpha values and the alpha slider.

See Also: -showsAlpha

setTarget: 

- (void) setTarget: (id)anObject;
Availability: OpenStep

Sets the target object to anObject

showsAlpha 

- (BOOL) showsAlpha;
Availability: OpenStep

Returns whether the NSColorPanel shows alpha values and the alpha slider

See Also: -setShowsAlpha:


Instance Variables for NSColorPanel Class

_accessoryView

@protected NSView* _accessoryView;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_action

@protected SEL _action;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_alphaSlider

@protected NSSlider* _alphaSlider;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_colorWell

@protected NSColorWell* _colorWell;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_currentPicker

@protected id _currentPicker;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_isContinuous

@protected BOOL _isContinuous;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_magnifyButton

@protected NSButton* _magnifyButton;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_pickerBox

@protected NSBox* _pickerBox;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_pickerMatrix

@protected NSMatrix* _pickerMatrix;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_pickers

@protected NSMutableArray* _pickers;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_showsAlpha

@protected BOOL _showsAlpha;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_splitView

@protected NSSplitView* _splitView;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_target

@protected id _target;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.

_topView

@protected NSView* _topView;
Availability: OpenStep

Warning the underscore at the start of the name of this instance variable indicates that, even though it is not technically private, it is intended for internal use within the package, and you should not use the variable in other code.


Software documentation for the NSApplication(NSColorPanel) category

NSApplication(NSColorPanel)

Declared in:
AppKit/NSColorPanel.h
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.
Method summary

orderFrontColorPanel: 

- (void) orderFrontColorPanel: (id)sender;
Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

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