Get a color from a configuration file

Hi,

Could anyone help me with getting a color from a configuration file?

Code:

color: SILVER

That is an example of how I want to get the color. I have tried:

Code:

getConfig().getColor( "path" );
getConfig().getColor( "path", Color default );

I have also tried creating an instance of of Color by doing:

Code:

Color color = getConfig().getColor( "path" );

But sadly none of this works.

I was looking through the forum threads related to getColor, and some people suggest using getRGB. I can think of a way to use a HashMap to have the user put in something like SILVER, and convert it to its correct RGB color, but I'm also not sure how to store an RGB in a HashMap. Would that be considered a String if I were to do that?

Thank you for reading and the help!

 

@NewDevOnTheBlock try ChatColor.valueOf(String) if it's what you need.

 

@caderape Thank you for responding, but I'm looking for something more like

Code:

Color.valueOf( String );

Which doesn't exist...

This looks a little promising... As I think I would now be able to store this in a HashMap. Something like...

Code:

Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<Color, Integer>();
for( Map.Entry<String, Integer> color : colors.entrySet() {
    //Magic
}
Color.fromRBG ( int RBG );

 

@NewDevOnTheBlock Yea i saw that after posting, you were looking for Color.

I don't think you can store color like that.

https://hub.spigotmc.org/javadocs/bukkit/org/bukkit/Color.html
Silver, or (0xC0,0xC0,0xC0) in (R,G,B)

Color color = Color.fromBGR(0xC0,0xC0,0xC0);

I think it works like that. But i never used it, so i might be wrong

 

@caderape Have you looked at the docs?

 

@caderape Ok, so I was looking really hard at the Bukkit 1.8.3 API and Minecraft Formatting Codes. The RGB color it takes is actually a "complex" version of a Hexadecimal code.

Take for instance the color WHITE. It's RGB code is 0xFF,0xFF,0xFF. #FFFFFF is white in Hex. Now a tougher one... NAVY which is 0x00,0x00,0x80 translates to #0000AA. I can figure all of them out, besides SILVER... So I guess I'll make a crazy algorithm to replace a String like NAVY to its correct color scheme.

If anyone else has an idea on how to solve this that isn't as weird as the idea above then post it!