[vtk-developers] Interest in a vtkColor class?

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi All,

Is there any interest in a vtkColor class? 

If so I would be happy to write one.

I envisage using the colour names in colors.tcl and having a function like:
GetColor("red"); returning a float[3]. Most likely I would use a map as the
underlying structure so that we could have a function like
InsertColor(name,r,g,b); Thus users could add to the existing colour table.

I just find it frustrating that when using TCL I can easily specify a colour
but I can't do this in C++. 

It would be nice to have something like:
actor->GetProperty()->SetColor(color->GetColor("antique_white"));


Of course local defines could be used but I think having a colour class
along with the ability to add more colours as you want may be a better
solution. I also want to keep the well known colour names without decorating
them, hence the syntax above.


Andrew




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Andrew J. P. Maclean
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