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On Fri, 18 May 2001, Mike Depot wrote:
> Before this goes public on CPAN, I was wondering if you would consider doing
> a named parameter cleanup?
>
> I know that Color is at least one example of where this could be improved...
>
> Currently the Color constructor can take parameters in the following ways
> (from docs):
> $color = Imager::Color->new($red, $green, $blue);
> $color = Imager::Color->new($red, $green, $blue, $alpha);
> $color = Imager::Color->new("#C0C0FF");
>
> What if I want to pass in an html color spec with an alpha channel?

I thought you might want to know that I just committed named parameter
support for Imager::Color to CVS (under the exp_represent branch).

Now we just need to do it for all the other places...

Tony

An excerpt from Imager/Color.pm:

You can specify colors in several different ways, you can just supply
simple values:

=over

=item *

simple numeric parameters - if you supply 3 or 4 numeric arguments, you
get a color made up of those RGB (and possibly A) components.

=item *

a six hex digit web color, either 'RRGGBB' or '#RRGGBB'

=item *

an eight hex digit web color, either 'RRGGBBAA' or '#RRGGBBAA'.

=item *

a 3 hex digit web color, '#RGB' - a value of F becomes 255.

=item *

a color name, from whichever of the gimp Named_Colors file or X
rgb.txt is found first. The same as using the name keyword.

=back

You can supply named parameters:

=over

=item *

'red', 'green' and 'blue', optionally shortened to 'r', 'g' and 'b'.
The color components in the range 0 to 255.

 # all of the following are equivalent
 my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(red=>100, blue=>255, green=>0);
 my $c2 = Imager::Color->new(r=>100, b=>255, g=>0);
 my $c3 = Imager::Color->new(r=>100, blue=>255, g=>0);

=item *

'hue', 'saturation' and 'value', optionally shortened to 'h', 's' and
'v', to specify a HSV color. 0 <= hue < 360, 0 <= s <= 1 and 0 <= v
<= 1.

  # the same as RGB(127,255,127)
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(hue=>120, v=>1, s=>0.5);
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(hue=>120, value=>1, saturation=>0.5);

=item *

'web', which can specify a 6 or 3 hex digit web color, in any of the
forms '#RRGGBB', '#RGB', 'RRGGBB' or 'RGB'.

  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(web=>'#FFC0C0'); # pale red

=item *

'gray' or 'grey' which specifies a single channel, from 0 to 255.

  # exactly the same
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(gray=>128);
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(grey=>128);

=item *

'rgb' which takes a 3 member arrayref, containing each of the red,
green and blue values.

  # the same
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(rgb=>[255, 100, 0]);
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(r=>255, g=>100, b=>0);

=item *

'hsv' which takes a 3 member arrayref, containting each of hue,
saturation and value.

  # the same
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(hsv=>[120, 0.5, 1]);
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(hue=>120, v=>1, s=>0.5);

=item *

'gimp' which specifies a color from a GIMP palette file. You can
specify the filename of the palette file with the 'palette' parameter,
or let Imager::Color look in various places, typically
"$HOME/gimp-1.x/palettes/Named_Colors" with and without the version
number, and in /usr/share/gimp/palettes/. The palette file must have
color names.

  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(gimp=>'snow');
  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(gimp=>'snow',
palette=>'testimg/test_gimp_pal);

=item *

'xname' which specifies a color from an X11 rgb.txt file. You can
specify the filename of the rgb.txt file with the 'palette' parameter,
or let Imager::Color look in various places, typically
'/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt'.

  my $c1 = Imager::Color->new(xname=>'blue') # usually RGB(0, 0, 255)

=item *

'name' which specifies a name from either a GIMP palette or an X
rgb.txt file, whichever is found first.

=item *

'channel0', 'channel1', etc, each of which specifies a single channel.
These can be abbreviated to 'c0', 'c1' etc.

=item *

'channels' which takes an arrayref of the channel values.

=back

Optionally you can add an alpha channel to a color with the 'alpha' or
'a' parameter.

These color specifications can be used for both constructing new
colors with the new() method and modifying existing colors with the
set() method.

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