Java - How to convert a Color.toString() into a Color?

Question

In order to save Color attributes of a graphical object in my application, I saved the string representation of this Color in a data file. For instance, for red I save: java.awt.Color[r=255,g=0,b=0]. How can I convert this string representation into a Color so that I can use it again after loading my data file ?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You may wish to use getRGB() instead of toString(). You can call

String colorS = Integer.toString(myColor.getRGB());

Then you can call

Color c = new Color(Integer.parseInt(colorS));

Answer 2

Stephan's answer helped me with this. However, I found that I needed to add a 'true' to the syntax in order to restore the color.

// convert to string
String colorS = Integer.toString(myColor.getRGB());

// restore colour from string
Color c = new Color(Integer.parseInt(colorS), true);