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.