An Xcode plugin to improve dealing with colors in your project

Does not seem to work with Xcode 7.3 beta (7D129n), the colour pallet menu in Xcode just shows system colours and seems to ignore my UIColor categories.

Here is what is printed in the Console:

`04/02/2016 13:17:27.037 Xcode[86084]: [MT] DVTAssertions: Warning in /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/DVTFrameworks/DVTFrameworks-10139/DVTKit/ViewControllers/DVTControllerContentView.m:82 Details: DEPRECATED: -[DVTControllerContentView_ControlledBy_IBInspectorViewController viewController] -> IBInspectorViewController 0 -[DVTControllerContentView viewController](in DVTKit) 1 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:](in Foundation) 2 -[DVTColorPickerPopUpButton(Crayons) inspectorViewController] at /Users/cameron/Library/Application Support/Alcatraz/Plug-ins/Crayons/Crayons/Classes/DVTColorPickerPopUpButton+Crayons.m:123 (in Crayons) 3 -[DVTColorPickerPopUpButton(Crayons) p_populateColorsMenu] at /Users/cameron/Library/Application Support/Alcatraz/Plug-ins/Crayons/Crayons/Classes/DVTColorPickerPopUpButton+Crayons.m:27 (in Crayons) 4 -[DVTAbstractColorPicker showColorsMenu](in DVTKit) 5 -[DVTColorPickerPopUpButton mouseDown:](in DVTKit) 6 -[NSWindow _handleMouseDownEvent:isDelayedEvent:](in AppKit) 7 -[NSWindow _reallySendEvent:isDelayedEvent:](in AppKit) 8 -[NSWindow sendEvent:](in AppKit) 9 -[IDEWorkspaceWindow sendEvent:](in IDEKit) 10 -[NSApplication sendEvent:](in AppKit) 11 -[IDEApplication sendEvent:](in IDEKit) 12 -[NSApplication run](in AppKit) 13 NSApplicationMain (in AppKit) 14 0x000000010752d3c3 (in Xcode) 15 start (in libdyld.dylib)

Object: <DVTControllerContentView_ControlledBy_IBInspectorViewController: 0x7fb9d1fe01e0> Method: -viewController Thread: <NSThread: 0x7fb9ca418370>{number = 1, name = main} Please file a bug at http://bugreport.apple.com with this warning message and any useful information you can provide.

04/02/2016 13:17:27.166 IBDesignablesAgentCocoaTouch[86162]: assertion failed: 15C50 13E5191d: libxpc.dylib + 27596 [05A59E46-3773-3B05-AA95-5EA031AC5F81]: 0x8d 04/02/2016 13:17:27.167 IBDesignablesAgentCocoaTouch[86162]: BUG in libdispatch: 15C50 - 1076 - 0x2

04/02/2016 13:17:27.167 IBDesignablesAgentCocoaTouch[86162]: BUG in libdispatch client: kevent[EVFILT_VNODE] add: "Bad file descriptor" - 0x9

04/02/2016 13:17:27.177 IBDesignablesAgentCocoaTouch[86162]: assertion failed: 15C50 13E5191d: libxpc.dylib + 27596 [05A59E46-3773-3B05-AA95-5EA031AC5F81]: 0x8d`

I'm trying to use this with PaintCode, which can export StyleKit classes that have colors. The only modification necessary to the PaintCode export file is to add the paletteName class func. I'm going to send an email to the PaintCode team to see if they might be able to add the paletteName func to their export template, but if not adding it manually isn't too difficult. As an aside, it would be cool if Crayons could detect a StyleKit file and index it with a standard name without needing the paletteName func.

Aside from that, PaintCode exports colors like this:

//// Cache

private struct Cache {
    static let themeRedColor: UIColor = UIColor(red: 0.835, green: 0.208, blue: 0.282, alpha: 1.000)
    static let themeGreenColor: UIColor = UIColor(red: 0.090, green: 0.592, blue: 0.467, alpha: 1.000)
    static let themeYellowColor: UIColor = UIColor(red: 0.965, green: 0.620, blue: 0.439, alpha: 1.000)
}

//// Colors

public class var themeRedColor: UIColor { return Cache.themeRedColor }
public class var themeGreenColor: UIColor { return Cache.themeGreenColor }
public class var themeYellowColor: UIColor { return Cache.themeYellowColor }

But Crayons needs this:

public class func testColor() -> UIColor { return Cache.themeGreenColor }

Is there a way to get Crayons to see these class vars and index them accordingly?

My Color class is included in my main project's target but also in an extension

I am seeing the palettes duplicated and I imagine its because both targets have been built, each added the palettes

After installing this plugin xcodebuild cannot find provisioning profiles for projects. Seems like it tries to find provisioning profiles in a wrong path. xcodebuild fails with following errors:

Error:CodeSign error: code signing is required for product type 'Application' in SDK 'iOS 9.2' Warning:Code Sign warning: Specified PROVISIONING_PROFILE (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx) not found and no CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY specified. Ignoring PROVISIONING_PROFILE for now. This will become an error in the future.

Error:Code Sign error: No matching provisioning profile found: Your build settings specify a provisioning profile with the UUID “xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx”, however, no such provisioning profile was found.

After removing the plugin xcodebuild builds projects successfully.

Xcode version: 7.2.

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"And if you decide to change a color, you just need to change it's implementation".

Does that mean if you decide to update one of your color it should be taken into account ?

Using Xcode 7.3.1, when I update/change one of my palette color value, all my components that were using that color don't use the new color value. I am not sure if Crayons is supposed to do that, or just creates colors shortcuts in the interface though.

Just an idea, but what about, instead of sorting the list of colors by name, they were sorted by color spectrum (somehow).

Eg in my screen shot, the sorting is good, but it'd be better if it went "Gray Light", "Gray" then "Gray Dark"

Wanted to leave this as a separate issue:

I like to have one global class with nested extensions for separate configuration panels. It's an intellisense pattern leftover from VS that I've grown to enjoy. With that said, nested classes in the palette pattern you've defined aren't shown in the Storyboard.

This might be intentional and not a bug, but I was curious about it nonetheless.

Thanks!

I really love the idea of this plugin, but I thought the intent is to be able to maintain colors for both the code and the storyboards in one place? If I change the code in the method, the colors stay the same in the storyboard with no change. I can't tell if this is a bug, a feature that is soon to be implemented, or if I'm misunderstanding the purpose of the plugin.

As it stands right now, Xcode offers custom palettes by going to the Colors menu, clicking the Palettes option, then the cog, and selecting "New..." You can then configure the color in the color picker and add it with the + button on this menu. Similarly, you can't update the color in the palette and expect it to change on the storyboard.

Hope this makes sense. Just trying to get some insight into the development of this app and see what we can expect.

I tried to install via Alcatraz and opened the Main.storyboard in the Example app. In the color picker no custom entry shows up.

I also tried to install manually (Just hit Cmd-R and another copy of Xcode opens) => same problem.