> On Sep 11, 2016, at 12:16 AM, Gavin Eadie <ga...@umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> I’m moving some code from Obj-C to Swift and, from time to time, I open a gap 
> I cannot see across.  This is one, and I’d love some assistance.
> 
> I converted a pile of utility Obj-C code that included a class method of the 
> form on the rhs of:
> 
>   xxx = [UIColor colorFromName:@"aliceblue"]
> 
> In the new Swift replacement of the utility code, I added a global constant 
> Dictionary of the form:
> 
>   public let colorLookup = [
>      "aliceblue" : UIColor.init(colorLiteralRed:0.0, green:0.5, blue:1.0, 
> alpha:1.0),
>      …
>   ]
> 
> and changed the Obj-C call to
> 
>   xxx = colorLookup[@"aliceblue"]
> 
> 
> The Obj-C compiler complains that the subscript is not numeric.  It also 
> appears to not be able to resolve the global constant "colorLookup" (which 
> probably explains the error in the previous sentence).  I notice that 
> "colorLookup" doesn’t appear in "Utilities-Swift.h" ..
> 
> There are other (and better) ways I could code this, but I’m curious why 
> "colorLookup" is invisible to Objective-C .. Thanks, Gavin

Wrap the variable in an Objective-C class and it should be fine:

public class Constants: NSObject {
        public let colorLookup: [String : UIColor] = ...
}

Charles
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