+static QColor stringToColor(QString strColor)
+{
+ bool ok = false;
+ QColor color("black");
+ int intval = 0;
+ if (strColor.startsWith("0x")) {
+ if (strColor.length() == 10) {
+ // 0xRRGGBBAA
+ intval = strColor.toUInt(&ok, 16);
+ color.setRgb( ( intval >> 24 ) & 0xff, // r
+ ( intval >> 16 ) & 0xff, // g
+ ( intval >> 8 ) & 0xff, // b
+ ( intval ) & 0xff ); // a
+ } else {
+ // 0xRRGGBB, 0xRGB
+ color.setNamedColor(strColor.replace(0, 2, "#"));
+ }
+ } else {
+ if (strColor.length() == 9) {
+ // #AARRGGBB
+ strColor = strColor.replace('#', "0x");
+ intval = strColor.toUInt(&ok, 16);
+ color.setRgb( ( intval >> 16 ) & 0xff, // r
+ ( intval >> 8 ) & 0xff, // g
+ ( intval ) & 0xff, // b
+ ( intval >> 24 ) & 0xff ); // a
+ } else if (strColor.length() == 8) {
+ // 0xRRGGBB
+ strColor = strColor.replace('#', "0x");
+ color.setNamedColor(strColor);
+ } else {
+ // #RRGGBB, #RGB
+ color.setNamedColor(strColor);
+ }
+ }
+
+ return color;
+}
+
+static QString colorToString(const QColor &color, bool alpha)
+{
+ QString colorStr;
+ QTextStream stream(&colorStr);
+ stream << "0x";
+ stream.setIntegerBase(16);
+ stream.setFieldWidth(2);
+ stream.setFieldAlignment(QTextStream::AlignRight);
+ stream.setPadChar('0');
+ stream << color.red() << color.green() << color.blue();
+ if (alpha) {
+ stream << color.alpha();
+ } else {
+ // MLT always wants 0xRRGGBBAA format
+ stream << "ff";
+ }
+ return colorStr;
+}