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How can I create a UIColor from a hex string?
I want to programmatically set the color of the UIView Background.
It doesn't seem like I can do it through Interfacebuilder. How should I do it if I want to set it to some hex code color?
I like to use this little piece of code to use HTML web colors in my apps.
[self.view setBackgroundColor: [self colorWithHexString:@"FFFFFF"]]; /* white */
-(UIColor*)colorWithHexString:(NSString*)hex
{
NSString *cString = [[hex stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]] uppercaseString];
// String should be 6 or 8 characters
if ([cString length] < 6) return [UIColor grayColor];
// strip 0X if it appears
if ([cString hasPrefix:@"0X"]) cString = [cString substringFromIndex:2];
if ([cString length] != 6) return [UIColor grayColor];
// Separate into r, g, b substrings
NSRange range;
range.location = 0;
range.length = 2;
NSString *rString = [cString substringWithRange:range];
range.location = 2;
NSString *gString = [cString substringWithRange:range];
range.location = 4;
NSString *bString = [cString substringWithRange:range];
// Scan values
unsigned int r, g, b;
[[NSScanner scannerWithString:rString] scanHexInt:&r];
[[NSScanner scannerWithString:gString] scanHexInt:&g];
[[NSScanner scannerWithString:bString] scanHexInt:&b];
return [UIColor colorWithRed:((float) r / 255.0f)
green:((float) g / 255.0f)
blue:((float) b / 255.0f)
alpha:1.0f];
}