Convert RGBA values to hex color code

Question

I have some sliders in my application that allows the user to change ARGB colors, however I need to convert these values to a hex value like 0xff000000, which is solid black.

This is what I have so far:

protected int toHex(Color col) {
    String as = pad(Integer.toHexString(col.getAlpha()));
    String rs = pad(Integer.toHexString(col.getRed()));
    String gs = pad(Integer.toHexString(col.getGreen()));
    String bs = pad(Integer.toHexString(col.getBlue()));
    String hex = "0x" + as + rs + gs + bs;
    return Integer.parseInt(hex, 16);
}

private static final String pad(String s) {
    return (s.length() == 1) ? "0" + s : s;
}

However upon getting the Integer value like below, I get a NumberFormatException for input string: "0xccffffff":

int color = toHex(new Color(153f, 153f, 153f, 0.80f));

Any ideas on how to get this to an Integer? Thanks.

Solution

The Color parameters must be floats between 1f and 0f. So this is a valid color:

int color = toHex(new Color(1f, 1f, 1f, 1f));

Which is white.

Comments

[Kaikz]

Ah, thanks. Got it sorted now. I'm using Slick for my font stuff and I've now switched the Color to java.awt.Color.