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HTML Hex Color to NSColor

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Code that will convert a simple Hex code value (from HTML colors) to an actual useable NSColor.

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  1. + (UIColor *) colorFromHexRGB:(NSString *) inColorString
  2. {
  3. 	UIColor *result = nil;
  4. 	unsigned int colorCode = 0;
  5. 	unsigned char redByte, greenByte, blueByte;
  6.  
  7. 	if (nil != inColorString)
  8. 	{
  9. 		NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:inColorString];
  10. 		(void) [scanner scanHexInt:&colorCode];	// ignore error
  11. 	}
  12. 	redByte		= (unsigned char) (colorCode >> 16);
  13. 	greenByte	= (unsigned char) (colorCode >> 8);
  14. 	blueByte	= (unsigned char) (colorCode);	// masks off high bits
  15. 	result = [UIColor
  16.             colorWithRed:	(float)redByte	/ 0xff
  17.             green:	(float)greenByte/ 0xff
  18.             blue:	(float)blueByte	/ 0xff
  19.             alpha:1.0];    
  20. 	return result;
  21. }

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