Store and get UIColor from .plist file

Question

I've been searching for this for a while now with no success. My question is: is there an easy way to store and get UIColors such as [UIColor blackColor] or [UIColor colorWithRed:0.38 green:0.757 blue:1 alpha:1]; in a .plist file in my app directory?

Answer 1

according to this discussion you have two options:

1. Store it like NSData in Data field of .plist file
2. Store it like String UIColor representation

NSData option

NSData *theData = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:[UIColor greenColor]];

NSString option

NSString *color = @"greenColor";
[UIColor performSelector:NSSelectorFromString(color)]

read more here: http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/27335-setting-uicolor-plist.html