Graphics::Color::RGB(3pm)

Usage

    use Graphics::Color::RGB;
    my $color = Graphics::Color::RGB->new({
        red     => 1,
        blue    => .31,
        green   => .25,
    });

Version

version 0.31

Overview

Graphics::Color::RGB represents a Color in the sRGB color space. Individual color channels are expressed as decimal values from 0 to 1, 0 being a lack of that color (or opaque in the case of alpha) and 1 being full color (or transparent in the case of alpha). If no options are provided then new instance of RGB are opaque white, (that is equivalent to red => 1, green => 1, blue => 1, alpha => 1).

Convenience methods are supplied to convert to various string values.

Attributes

red

r

Set/Get the red component of this Color. Aliased to 'r' as well.

green

g

Set/Get the green component of this Color. Aliased to 'g' as well.

blue

b

Set/Get the blue component of this Color. Aliased to 'b' as well.

alpha

a

Set/Get the alpha component of this Color. Aliased to 'a' as well.

name

Get the name of this color. Only valid if the color was created by name.

Methods

as_string

Get a string version of this Color in the form of RED,GREEN,BLUE,ALPHA

as_integer_string

Return an integer formatted value for this color. This format is suitable for CSS RGBA values.

as_css_hex

Return a hex formatted value with a prepended '#' for use in CSS and HTML.

as_hex_string ( [$prepend] )

Return a hex formatted value for this color. The output ignores the alpha channel because, per the W3C, there is no hexadecimal notiation for an RGBA value. Optionally allows you to include a string that will be prepended. This is a common way to add the "#".

as_percent_string

Return a percent formatted value for this color. This format is suitable for CSS RGBA values.

as_array

Get the RGB values as an array.

as_array_with_alpha

Get the RGBA values as an array

equal_to

Compares this color to the provided one. Returns 1 if true, else 0;

not_equal_to

The opposite of equal_to.

from_color_library ($color_id)

Attempts to retrieve the specified color-id using Color::Library. The result is then converted into a Graphics::Color::RGB object.

from_hex_string($hex)

Attempts to create a Graphics::Color::RGB object from a hex string. Works with or without the leading # and with either 3 or 6 character hex strings.

to_hsl

Creates this RGB color in HSL space. Returns a Graphics::Color::HSL object.

to_hsv

Creates this RGB color in HSV space. Returns a Graphics::Color::HSV object.

Copyright and license

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.