Xcode 8 Beta 4 CGColor.components unavailable - core-graphics

Question

Whilst the code below worked previously, it has stopped working in Xcode 8 Beta 4, presumably because the components return was a very un-Swift-y C-array of floats, and has been removed. The error is bald - "'components' is unavailable" - and I can't find what has replaced it, if anything. Does anyone know how to produce the same functionality?
public var cgColour: CGColor {
get {
return CGColor(red: self.colourRed, green: self.colourGreen, blue: self.colourBlue, alpha: self.colourAlpha)
}
set {
let comps = newValue.components // No longer available
self.colourRed = (comps?[0])!
self.colourGreen = (comps?[1])!
self.colourBlue = (comps?[2])!
self.colourAlpha = (comps?[3])!
}
}
Update
#Hamish's answer works, but my original intent was not to use UIColor nor NSColor so that my code works in both iOS & MacOS. What I've ended up doing is this...
#if os(iOS)
import UIKit
#elseif os(OSX)
import Cocoa
#endif
extension CGColor {
var components: (red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat, alpha: CGFloat) {
var r: CGFloat = 0
var g: CGFloat = 0
var b: CGFloat = 0
var a: CGFloat = 0
#if os(iOS)
UIColor(cgColor: self).getRed(&r, green: &g, blue: &b, alpha: &a)
#elseif os(OSX)
NSColor(cgColor: self)?.getRed(&r, green: &g, blue: &b, alpha: &a)
#endif
return (r, g, b, a)
}
}
// Playground code to test...
#if os(iOS)
let rgba = UIColor.brown.cgColor.components //(0.6, 0.4, 0.2, 1.0)
#elseif os(OSX)
let rgba = NSColor.brown.cgColor.components //(0.6, 0.4, 0.2, 1.0)
#endif
... this is such a kludge - has anyone got a better answer?

Answer 1

This looks like a transitional beta issue.
The Swift repo on Github includes an extensive SDK overlay for CoreGraphics, including a new version of CGColor.components whose return type is a Swift array instead of an UnsafePointer. Part of how they make that SDK overlay work is API notes, which map some of the underlying C calls to double-underscore'd Swift methods so that the overlay can wrap them in a more-Swifty interface.
It looks like the beta 4 and beta 5 compilers picked up the API notes change, but not the overlay that includes the new version of components. Presumably a future beta (or the final Swift 3.0 / Xcode 8.0 release) will include everything that's now on github.

Answer 2

#Hamish's answer works, but my original intent was not to use UIColor or NSColor so that my code works in both iOS & MacOS. #LeoDabus suggested using SKColor, but that's just a type alias to either NSColor or UIColor, and doesn't have a direct init from CGColor anyway, however, Leo's suggestion prompted me to refine my kludge using CIColor instead:
import CoreImage
extension CGColor {
var components: (red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat, alpha: CGFloat) {
let ciColor = CIColor(cgColor: self)
return (ciColor.red, ciColor.green, ciColor.blue, ciColor.alpha)
}
}

Answer 3

I'm also a little perplexed as to why they have removed the components property from CGColor, as there doesn't seem to be any kind of obvious replacement method/property. It looks like they're trying to get people to use the higher level UIColor or NSColor classes instead. (As #rickster has discovered, this looks more like a simple transitional issue).
One solution, as you're working with RGB colors, would be to simply wrap your CGColor in a UIColor/NSColor, and then use the getRed(_:green:blue:alpha:) method to get out the components instead.
public var cgColour : CGColor {
get {
return CGColor(red: colourRed, green: colourGreen, blue: colourBlue, alpha: colourAlpha)
}
set {
NSColor(cgColor: newValue)?.getRed(&colourRed, green: &colourGreen, blue: &colourBlue, alpha: &colourAlpha)
}
}
Perhaps not the most ideal solution – would certainly be interested to know if anyone else has a better one, or knows more about this change. Depending on the usage of this property, you may also want to consider simply making it of type UIColor/NSColor to prevent the needless wrapping that this solution requires.

Answer 4

I may be mistaking something, but you can find this in the imported header of CGColor.
/* Return the color components (including alpha) associated with `color'. */
#available(OSX 10.3, *)
public var __unsafeComponents: UnsafePointer<CGFloat>? { get }
Isn't this what you are looking for?
I can write something like this:
public var cgColour: CGColor {
get {
return CGColor(red: self.colourRed, green: self.colourGreen, blue: self.colourBlue, alpha: self.colourAlpha)
}
set {
if let comps = newValue.__unsafeComponents, newValue.numberOfComponents == 4 {
self.colourRed = comps[0]
self.colourGreen = comps[1]
self.colourBlue = comps[2]
self.colourAlpha = comps[3]
}
}
}
It works as I expect, but I'm not sure it's as you expect, or Apple would treat this as using a private API. (Apple's latest documentation of CGColor does not contain double-underscore leaded symbols.)

Answer 5

extension UIColor {
var all4Components:(red:CGFloat, green:CGFloat, blue: CGFloat, alpha:CGFloat) {
let components = self.cgColor.components!
let red = components[0]
let green = components[1]
let blue = components[2]
let alpha = components[3]
return (red:red, green:green, blue: blue, alpha:alpha)
}
}