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Take your victories where you can!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Enjoy these victories while you can, as you get older putting on socks the same color is an acheivement.
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Until you decide to throw away the whole socks drawer and buy 20 sets of identical socks.
I may or may not have done it
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I'm partial to solid gray!
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Did that years ago - am I getting old? I didn't realise this was a symptom.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I solved that years ago by buying 10 pairs at a time of solid black, and throwing the lot away when I'm down to seven.
Has the other advantage the pairing them up after a trip through the washing machine becomes trivial.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm cheap I alternate years when buying.
I buy darker gray at first then I throw away as they get worn and buy light gray.
The machine fads them so they kinda match the old ones.
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Mike Hankey wrote: putting on socks the same color is an acheivement Allow me to share the wisdom of the ages, my son... Twice a year, I buy a 12 pack of Hanes crew socks. They are all the same color (white with some gray) and therefore go with everything.
If there's ever a case where I'm wearing something other than these socks, I wonder when I died and no one told me.
Software Zen: delete this;
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This *almost* qualifies as a programming question, but not quite, so I apologize for playing footsie with breaking the rules.
Under System.Drawing in .NET there's a Color enumeration that has a bunch of predefined colors like DarkKhaki and AliceBlue , and such.
Is that enumeration based on anything other than some arbitrary list of colors microsoft's coders came up with?
What I mean is, is there some sort of named color palette for web colors or something that this enumeration is based on.
I'm asking in part, because I'm doing this to generate C++ code for a rather large enumeration of color values, I am shamelessly ripping from .NET
bool cpp17 = true;
Console.WriteLine("\t// predefined color values");
Console.WriteLine("\ttemplate<typename PixelType>");
Console.WriteLine("\tstruct color final {");
Console.WriteLine("\t\t// we use a super precise max-bit RGB pixel for this");
Console.WriteLine("\t\tusing source_type = rgb_pixel<HTCW_MAX_WORD>;");
var pia = typeof(Color).GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static);
for(var i = 0;i<pia.Length;i++)
{
var name = pia[i].Name;
if ("Transparent" != name)
{
if(cpp17)
{
Color c = (Color)pia[i].GetValue(null);
Console.WriteLine("\t\tconstexpr static const PixelType {0} = source_type(true,{1},{2},{3}).convert<PixelType>();", _ConvertCase(name), c.R / 255.0, c.G / 255.0, c.B / 255.0);
} else
Console.WriteLine("\t\tstatic const PixelType {0};",_ConvertCase(name));
}
}
Console.WriteLine("};");
if (!cpp17)
{
for (var i = 0; i < pia.Length; i++)
{
var name = pia[i].Name;
if ("Transparent" != name)
{
Color c = (Color)pia[i].GetValue(null);
Console.WriteLine("\ttemplate<typename PixelType> const PixelType color<PixelType>::{0} = color<PixelType>::source_type(true,{1},{2},{3}).convert<PixelType>();", _ConvertCase(name), c.R / 255.0, c.G / 255.0, c.B / 255.0);
}
}
}
That creates a templated "enumeration" of known color values in C++17 or C++14 depending on the cpp17 flag.
In essence creating code like this (C++17)
constexpr static const PixelType alice_blue = source_type(true,0.941176470588235,0.972549019607843,1).convert<PixelType>();
constexpr static const PixelType antique_white = source_type(true,0.980392156862745,0.92156862745098,0.843137254901961).convert<PixelType>();
constexpr static const PixelType aqua = source_type(true,0,1,1).convert<PixelType>();
constexpr static const PixelType aquamarine = source_type(true,0.498039215686275,1,0.831372549019608).convert<PixelType>();
constexpr static const PixelType azure = source_type(true,0.941176470588235,1,1).convert<PixelType>();
And the bottom line is I want to know how much trouble I'll get in by doing this. If the color values are standardized then I think I'm safe from any team of lawyers microsoft sics on me.
If they're not then I may need to come up with an alternative.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Your google fu is stronger than mine. I bow to you, Sander-san**
**Yes I know, I'm mixing chinese and japanese things, but whatever. I don't know how to express "teacher" in mandarinized english.
Real programmers use butterflies
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- Teacher in Japanese would be sensei
- If Google can be believed, teacher in Chinese (pinyin transliteration) is lǎo shī (which also translates to something like "old master" )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yeah I used to take karate, but I forgot what the san suffix meant at the end of the name. Your post sent me to google to look up. It's a title of respect, often used when addressing people in positions of respect, or otherwise formally. Like sir, for example. It would be used by a student addressing a teacher, but does not mean teacher per se. I overstated it on account of bad organic RAM between the ears.
I would have wanted something similar in Chinese, but I have no idea what it would be or if there's an even equivalent way to mangle Sander's name like that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Observe and learn, my young Padawan.
Your question was "Is that enumeration based on anything other than some arbitrary list of colors microsoft's coders came up with?"
So I thought, well CSS has the same colors and CSS is based on something.
So I googled "where do css named colors come from"
Searching "where do system.drawing named colors come from" gives you the same answer "NET Framework, Windows Forms, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. These colors and their names are based on the UNIX X11 color values."
It sounds almost too simple to work, yet it does
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I know jack about CSS. Some of it comes back to me a little if I stare at it, but I never retain it.
So I wouldn't have made it past your first step.
Real programmers use butterflies
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'Dark, the dark side it is! Very dark!'
'Shut up, Yoda! Get the bread out of the toaster earlier next time!'
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I love sending you a W3Schools [^] reference !
Aside from it harking to Q&A, therefore legitimizing your posting in The Lounge, it is the second of many consecutive pages of color info. Don't miss out on the others. Many are nice in that they're interactive allowing a gradient of fixed values for your start and end colors.
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I found the previous two lists mentioned and after a bit more searching I came across a graphics design company that had a list of over seven hundred shades so I merged the three lists and came up with my own superset. Then I added some macros and have a list I can use with GDI, GDI+, and OpenGL which are the three I work with and have different color schemes. It is unlikely you need the full list so one of the previous two should suffice. I wanted to be a bit more comprehensive.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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One of the nicer things in my list is I made the macros such that one can get a list of the colors in text format which I use to populate lists and combo boxes. I will be happy to share that list and its associated files with you if you want them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I would but honestly, I can just add to the generator to get friendly names for the colors. The reason I don't is I'm deadly suspicious of strings in my source code unintentionally winding up in the .text section of my executable even when I think I didn't use them. I'm probably being paranoid about it, but every time I add a string to the source code for this library I go to the asm output on code that doesn't use it just to see that it didn't wind up in the asm.
I also don't even store the facename of fonts for a similar reason. I'm just deathly afraid of string pollution.
The reason it matters is sometimes I'm targeting devices with as little as 256kB of nonvolatile storage and I have to share it with the rest of the firmware.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I understand. That part of the implementation is optional. All parts are really meaning if you never use OpenGL or GDI+ stuff that's OK - comment it out. If you need a different color data format that's OK to - you can redefine the macro. It's redefined for each type of color used and namespaces are used extensively.
I should probably write an article about this stuff some day. It's really helped me a lot.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Perhaps unknowingly, but I am sure you hurt Bob's feelings.
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Sander Rossel wrote: what's better than a guinea pig fronted metal band
A Hamster-fronted metal band, of course!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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You're right! Unfortunately, that's not included in the list
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