ColorTool

This tool takes a JSON input file and generates some output files to help developers on their projects. At the moment it is Cocoa-centric, but we would like to extend it to create CSS output, output suitable for Android, etc.

Using

Compiled with Xcode, a command line application is created named ColorTool. It can be invoked by the command:

ColorTool myColors.json

Based on the instructions in the input file, it will create output files of the desired format.

Input File Format

{
    "name":"SampleCorp Colors",
    "output":{
        "dir":".",
        "writers":{
            "objc":{
                "class":"SCColor",
                "platform":"ios"
            },
            "clr":{
                "file":"SampleColors.clr"
            }
        }
    },
    "colors":[
              { "name":"Super white",  "hex":"#ffffff" },
              { "name":"Super black",  "hex":"#000000" },
              { "name":"random color", "red":0.88, "green":0.55, "blue":0.283 }
    ]
}

• name will be used in the CLR file
• output is the section describing the output.
  • objc creates Objective-C output files.
    • The class variable sets the class name (name will be capitalized and Color appended if these are not included)
    • The optional "platform":"ios" variable chooses UIColor and UIKit over NSColor and AppKit.
  • clr creates an Apple Color Palette file. Color files are imported like so:
  • 
• colors describes the array of colors.
  • Colors may specified as hex or rgb, as described.