how to use in a script a CSS color name (solved TNX Kevin)

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon Nov 24, 2014 5:40 am **(#1)**

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

(probably this question is addressed to Saul Goode, who helped me a few days ago)
Using the color picker interactively in Gimp I saw that it is possible to select a color based on its Css name (for instance maroon)
Is it possible to reference the CSS names of colors in an .scm script?
Is there maybe a kind of service piece of code with a list of all the equivalences such that maroon is defined as '(128 0 0)?
Or can it be directly inputed as maroon in some way?
Thanks a lot

paynekj · **Posted:** Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:08 am **(#2)**

(gimp-context-set-foreground "maroon")

Named colours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names although you have to make them all lower case and remove the space characters:

(gimp-context-set-foreground "yellowgreen")

Kevin

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:43 am **(#3)**

Thanks, Kevin! Very easy indeed!
I tought I tried that way, among others, before posting, but got an error (I don't remember exactly); probably I entered the name incorrectly, maybe with uppercase, I don't remember how.
Retried now and it's OK, so thanks a lot!

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Hmmm. Just discovered that the "HTML notation" input field in color selectors accepts CSS color names (the one for FG/BG and also the one used for the parameters in plugins).

paynekj · **Posted:** Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:25 am **(#5)**

I only realised you could use colour names because I read a recent bugz from Saul: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739457

Kevin

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16175

paynekj wrote:

I only realised you could use colour names because I read a recent bugz from Saul: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739457

Kevin

I knew black and white worked but i had no idea you could use named colors for anything else. Good to know.

Thanks guys.