Improvement: Friendly Colorname (ColorInfo)

[ricardok1]

Hi again
Please check my suggestion about having a friendly colorname.
I'm new to c++ and don't follow any convention/protocol so feel 100% free to adapt as you know best if you like this.
This was inspired by C# and MagikCore and overload of Color creation to add just the colorname instead of RGBA.

ColorInfo » Colornames to RGBA (outside Color to reduce memory footprint)
Color » overload to allow an easy Color("black"), Add a cache if too much called and an Exception if the color doesn't exist.

Thanks
Ricardo

ouzel.graphics.ColorInfo.zip
samples.zip

[ricardok1]

forget Color.cpp change on the zip

ouzel.graphics.ColorInfo.zip

[ricardok1]

corrected cache key from char* to string

ouzel.graphics.ColorInfo.zip

[elnormous]

Ok, I will add them as constants in Colot.h rather than the string map. String lookup is slow and unneeded and strings take up unnecessary space.
Why do you need the compliance information in a game engine?

[elnormous]

Added first color constants (see the commit 743f89c).

[ricardok1]

My intention was to give tools and facilitate further integration. This called just on time on object creation - doesn't impact on animation speed.

Please see Xlib on wikipedia