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Comment on Hex Colors by superiorcode.com » XNA Color Formatted Text

superiorcode.com » XNA Color Formatted Text — Sat, 15 May 2010 07:27:22 +0000

[...] a color from HEX is another thing that isn’t built into XNA. So, back to google and I found this blog that had the extensions I needed already worked out! Ok, fantastic, now the final piece, I just [...]

Comment on Hex Colors by Ben

Ben — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:07:38 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for this, and updated the moment I search for it in google! I was going to write up my own extension if I didn’t find one, now I don’t have to :)

Thanks!

Comment on Hex Colors by matt

matt — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:55:54 +0000

@Chris Awesome! I guess not immediately thinking of utilizing some bit operations to extract the components really goes to show my hobbyist approach to this! :)

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve gone ahead and updated the code by using this approach, and by splitting it into two separate extension classes.

Comment on Hex Colors by Chris

Chris — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:46:47 +0000

You can avoid so much string splitting and parsing by parsing the whole number in one go then using bitshifting to get the components, something like:

var c = uint.Parse(hexcode.Substring(1), NumberStyles.HexNumber, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
var a = (c >> 6) & 0xFF;
var r = (c >> 4) & 0xFF;
var g = (c >> 2) & 0xFF;
var b = c & 0xFF;

Note, its un-tested, I just wrote it out quickly as a demonstration, but thats the general principle.

Comment on OgmoXNA Released by OgmoXNA « Sgt. Conker

OgmoXNA « Sgt. Conker — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:43:37 +0000

[...] details from Matt, here. About Captain ZSquareMicrosoft XNA MVP Tagged as: Editor, Matt Sams, News, Ogmo Editor, [...]

Comment on OgmoXNA Released by matt

matt — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:59:12 +0000

No problem, glad I could help. :) Let me know if anything could use improving.

Comment on OgmoXNA Released by Jake Elliott

Jake Elliott — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:49:02 +0000

Hey thanks for sharing this! I just spent some time this weekend integrating Ogmo into my own project but your implementation looks much better, and it’s great to have a concrete example of building a pipeline extension.