Convert color name to HEX

[ashahabov]

Can SkiaSharp convert the color name to the corresponding HEX?

By System.Drawing I do this in the following way:

var color = Color.FromName("blue");
var argb = color.ToArgb();
var colorHex = $"{argb:x6}";

but I can't find similar in SkiaSharp.

[mattleibow]

ToString maybe? Or just cast to uint.

[ashahabov]

@mattleibow, thank you for the reply.

I can create SKColor instance from HEX string and get HEX of SKColor

var color = SKColor.Parse("#FF0000FF");
var hex = color.ToString();

but how to create SKColor from color name? E.g, the following doesn't work:

var color = SKColor.Parse("blue");

It expects only HEX string.

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My input is string color name, which I need to convert to HEX.

[mattleibow]

What happens if you do "Blue"? I wonder if the name code is case sensitive by accident... If that is the case then we need to fix that.

[mattleibow]

Just looked at the implementation and I see I do not have any code to do name parsing... A pity. I think we should fix this.

Can you open an issue for this?

[ashahabov]

Ok. I will.

[mattleibow]

thanks! I'll see what we can do.

[ashahabov]

Found solution via reflection:

var inputClrName = "blue";

var fieldInfo = typeof(SKColors).GetFields(BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public)
                                             .First(fieldInfo => fieldInfo.Name.ToLower() == inputClrName);
var color = (SKColor)fieldInfo.GetValue(null);

var outputHexString = color.ToString();

[mattleibow]

I think we can do better. Can you open an issue and we can fix this for real?