2009 NEWS 2009-04-17 - IMPROVED MODULE: Uize.Color
The Uize.Color module has been dramatically improved, with the addition of a framework for color spaces, a framework for color encodings, a framework for named colors, built-in support for the sRGB and HSL color spaces, and a diverse array of built-in color encodings.
The new framework for working with colors is extensible. New color spaces, new color encodings, and new named colors can be defined in extension modules (or your application code). Built-in color encodings include hex, #hex, name, RGB array, RGB int, RGB object, RGB string, and many more. Seventeen CSS 2.1 named colors are defined, and over a hundred SVG 1.0 / CSS 3 named colors are defined in the Uize.Color.xSvgColors extension module. Along with sRGB, the Uize.Color module also defines the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color space, along with a variety of associated color encodings for that color space.
Along with these major improvements, a number of older features have been deprecated or migrated into extension modules, in order to improve the architecture.
1. Instance Methods Deprecated
A number of instance methods of the Uize.Color object have been deprecated.
myColor.toHex >> BECOMES >> myColor.to ('hex')
myColor.setColor >> BECOMES >> myColor.from
myColor.mix >> BECOMES >> myColor.blend -- in Uize.Color.xUtil
2. Static Methods Deprecated
A number of static methods of the Uize.Color object have been deprecated.
Uize.Color.blendHex >> BECOMES >> Uize.Color.blend -- in Uize.Color.xUtil Uize.Color.mixColors >> BECOMES >> Uize.Color.mix -- in Uize.Color.xUtil Uize.Color.hexStrToRgb >> BECOMES >> Uize.Color.to (hexRgbSTR,'RGB object') Uize.Color.rgbFromStyleStr >> BECOMES >> new Uize.Color Uize.Color.rgbToHexStr >> BECOMES >> Uize.Color.to (rgbOBJ,'hex') Uize.Color.rgbToStyleStr >> BECOMES >> Uize.Color.to (myColor,'RGB string')
3. Features Killed
A couple of features have been killed entirely, with no backwards compatibility provided.
The Uize.Color.hexStr static method has been killed. If you want to convert a number to a hexadecimal string, use the toString instance method of the Number object that accepts a base argument, as in (new Number (myNumber)).toString (16), or myNumberVariable.toString (16). |
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A variation of the deprecated Uize.Color.RgbColor object constructor that accepted a single integer parameter in the range of 0 to 255, representing gray scale, has been killed. Now, when specifying a number as the only argument to the constructor to the Uize.Color object, the number must be the integer equivalent of a hexadecimal RGB color value. This allows one to do things like new Uize.Color (0xff00ff), which creates a Uize.Color instance initialized to the color fuchsia. |
4. Uize.Color.RgbColor Deprecated
The Uize.Color.RgbColor object has been deprecated in favor of the enhanced Uize.Color object.
The Uize.Color module is now an object module. While providing the same static methods as before, it is now also possible to create instances of the Uize.Color object. The Uize.Color object takes over from the deprecated Uize.Color.RgbColor object, although the latter is still supported. Essentially, Uize.Color.RgbColor is now a synonym / alias for Uize.Color. This change greatly simplifies the interface of the Uize.Color module.
new Uize.Color.RgbColor >> BECOMES >> new Uize.Color