Conver...or::X11(3pm)

💖 Convert::Color::X11 — the perl manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is Conver...or::X11(3pm) (yes the manpage title is literally truncated like that, it's giving ✨mysterious✨), a User Contributed Perl Documentation page. it's all about calling colors by their government name instead of by their numbers. let's go 🎀

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🌈 NAME 🌈

Convert::Color::X11 — named lookup of colors from X11's rgb.txt no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

you can do it directly, like the bold independent main character you are:

use Convert::Color::X11;

my $red = Convert::Color::X11->new( 'red' );

or you can go via Convert::Color, which is the group-project route 🫶:

use Convert::Color;

my $cyan = Convert::Color->new( 'x11:cyan' );

both work. both slay. pick your fighter.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this class is a subclass of Convert::Color::RGB8 (it's in the family, it's just got extra lore), and what it does is let you look up color names — the ones that come from X11's rgb.txt file. that's the whole vibe. names in, colors out. iconic fr fr.

👑 CLASS METHODS 👑

💜 colors

@colors = Convert::Color::X11->colors;

this hands you back a list of all the defined color names, in the order they showed up in the rgb.txt file. the order is preserved, it's not scrambling anything, we respect the timeline 🌸

$num_colors = Convert::Color::X11->colors;

but wait — if you call it in scalar context, you don't get the list, you get the count of how many defined colors there are. one method, two moods. it contains multitudes ✨

🎀 CONSTRUCTOR 🎀

💖 new

$color = Convert::Color::X11->new( $name );

feed it a $name and it returns a brand new object that represents the named color. that's it, that's the whole ritual, no cap 🫶

🌸 METHODS 🌸

⭐ name

$name = $color->name;

this gives you back the name of the VGA color. that's what the page says, word for word, so that's what you get — VGA color, periodt 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Convert::Color — color space conversions (the whole ecosystem, iykyk)

💌 AUTHOR 💌

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> — the legend who wrote this, give them their flowers 💐

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lowkey important reminder: this page is perl v5.40.0, dated 2024-09-16, and it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation set. so if ur reading it on some wildly different perl version... vibe check ur install first bestie 😭

okay that's the whole page, go forth and name ur colors, mwah 💖🌈🦋