Color.VALUE to text in JavaFX 8 - colors

Question

I'm trying to create a dropdown box/combo box for that contains multiple colors such as Color.RED, Color.BLUE, etc.. But when I run the program, it prints the colors in their hex form: 0xff0000. Actually, it prints them in some hex-like form that contains 8 numbers instead of 6: 0xff0000ff. I know it has something to do with the ObervableList. That's where I add the colors, and that's what the combo box gets the colors from. But how do I get it to just print "Red" or "Blue"?
Text diffuseColorText = new Text("Diffuse Color");
diffuseColorText.setFont(Font.font("Arial", FontWeight.BOLD, 10));
ObservableList<Color> colorList = FXCollections.observableArrayList(Color.RED, Color.BLUE, Color.YELLOW,
Color.GREEN, Color.PURPLE, Color.ORANGE);
ComboBox<Color> dColors = new ComboBox<>(colorList);
dColors.setPromptText("Color of Box");
dColors.setPrefSize(150, 30);
dColors.setOnAction(event -> {
diffuseColor = ((ComboBox<Color>) event.getSource()).getValue();
mymaterial.setDiffuseColor(diffuseColor);
});

Answer 1

Color.toString prints the channels (including alpha) and there's nothing you can do about it.
You could use a Map<String, Color> though to map from strings to color:
Map<String, Color> colors = new LinkedHashMap<>();
colors.put("RED", Color.RED);
...
colors.put("ORANGE", Color.ORANGE);
ObservableList<String> colorList = FXCollections.observableArrayList(colors.keySet());
ComboBox<String> dColors = new ComboBox<>(colorList);
dColors.setPromptText("Color of Box");
dColors.setPrefSize(150, 30);
dColors.setOnAction(event -> {
diffuseColor = colors.get(((ComboBox<String>) event.getSource()).getValue());
mymaterial.setDiffuseColor(diffuseColor);
});
If reflection is available and you want to list all colors available via fields in the Color class, you could also use it to the Colors:
private static final int PUBLIC_STATIC = Modifier.PUBLIC | Modifier.STATIC;
...
Map<String, Color> colors = new LinkedHashMap<>();
for (Field field : Color.class.getDeclaredFields()) {
if (field.getType() == Color.class && (field.getModifiers() & PUBLIC_STATIC) == PUBLIC_STATIC ) {
colors.put(field.getName(), (Color) field.get(null));
}
}