Getting a Color from a String input

Question

I am making an application where at some point i need the user to select a color, but as to not just have 50 radioButtons, I was wondering if it is possible to actually get the

Answer 1

Wouldn't it be easier to just make a JComboBox or something alike?

But to answer your question: Yes it is possible. I'll give a piece of code that you could use as a start to get you going (assuming you still want the string to color)

String text = "red";
Color color;
Field field = Class.forName("java.awt.Color").getField(text.toLowerCase()); // toLowerCase because the color fields are RED or red, not Red
color = (Color)field.get(null);