Are NSColors like tungsten and steel also available?

Question

I know Cocoa gives you whiteColor, blackColor, darkGrayColor, but do they also have the colors from in Apple's color panel? With colors like "Snow", "Tungsten", "Steel", "Tin" ? Or should I create those myself?

Answer 1

You want NSColorList. The one named “Crayons” corresponds to the crayon box in the Color Panel.

Answer 2

You should find the rgb values for those colors and make your own NSColor. Documentation for NSColor from rgb here

Answer 3

You can add Categories to NSColor and make ANY color with ANY name you want… So you need a make 2 files… NSColor+YourCategories.h…

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
@interface NSColor (YourCategories)  // Tag in () is "yours" to name,
+ (NSColor *) MAUVE;
@end    

and an aptly named NSColor+YourCategories.m file

#import "NSColor+YourCategories.h"
@implementation NSColor (YourCategories)
+ (NSColor *) MAUVE { static NSColor*  MAUVE = nil;  if( MAUVE == nil )
              MAUVE = [NSColor colorWithDeviceRed:0.712 green:0.570 blue:0.570 alpha:1.000];r
       return MAUVE;
 }

The simply

#import NSColor+YourCategories.h

on any page which you want to be able to refer to your named colors, like…

[[self window]setBackGroundColor: [NSColor MAUVE]];

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