cpp-colors

A C++ header-only color format & conversion library.

• Parsing and formatting colors: #aarrggbb, argb(a, r, g, b) & rgb(r, g, b)
• Checking whether the given color is light or dark.
• parsing named colors: x11, wpf & .net naming schemes
• conversion between: bgr24, bgra32, bgr32, bgr565, bgr555, bgra5551, rgba32 and rgb32 pixel formats

Directories

• build - directory for tests & examples
• examples - examples source code
• include - the source code of the library
• test - test source code

More information

• Wiki

Tested compilers

• Linux (x86/64)
  • GCC 4.8, Boost 1.54
  • Clang 3.4, Boost 1.54
• Windows (x86/64)
  • MSVC 14, Boost 1.57

Installation

This is a header only library, in order to use it make the cpp-colors-include directory available to your project and include the header file in your source code:

#include "cpp-colors/colors.h"

Building Tests & Examples

This project tests and examples use the Cross-platform Make (CMake) build system. Tests depend on Google Test Framework. gtest-1.7.0 is recommended.

Linux

The recommended way is to create 'out of source' build:

cd cpp-colors/build
cmake ..
make

Windows

Visual Studio:

Follow the directions at the link for running CMake on Windows:
http://www.cmake.org/runningcmake/

NOTE: Select the "build" folder as the location to build the binaries.

Deleting all files Make & CMake created

make clean-all

Contact

[Grigoriy Chudnov] (mailto:[email protected])

License

Distributed under the The MIT License (MIT).