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Interface java.awt.Paint

All Known Implementing Classes:

Color, GradientPaint, TexturePaint

public abstract interface Paint

extends Transparency

This interface defines how color patterns can be generated for Graphics2D operations. Paint is set in the Graphics2D and thereafter the draw and fill methods will use the color pattern generated by the implementing Paint class.

Instances of classes implementing Paint must be immutable (i.e. read-only) because the Graphics2D does not clone these objects when they are set as an attribute with the setPaint method or when the Graphics2D object is itself cloned.

See Also:

PaintContext, Color, GradientPaint, TexturePaint, Graphics2D.setPaint(java.awt.Paint)

Fields inherited from class java.awt.Transparency

BITMASK , OPAQUE , TRANSLUCENT

Method Summary

PaintContext

createContext(ColorModel cm, Rectangle deviceBounds, Rectangle2D userBounds, AffineTransform xform, RenderingHints hints) Create and return a context used to generate the color pattern.

Methods inherited from interface java.awt.Transparency

getTransparency

Method Detail

createContext

public PaintContext createContext(ColorModel cm,
                                  Rectangle deviceBounds,
                                  Rectangle2D userBounds,
                                  AffineTransform xform,
                                  RenderingHints hints)

Create and return a context used to generate the color pattern.

Parameters:

cm - ColorModel in which the caller wishes to receive the paint data. This is used only as a hint.

deviceBounds - The Rectangle describing the bounding box in device space of the graphics primitive being rendered.

userBounds - The Rectangle2D describing the bounding box in user space of the graphics primitive being rendered.

xform - The Transform from user space into device space.

hints - The hint for the context object to choose between rendering alternatives.

Returns:

The PaintContext for generating color patterns.

See Also:

PaintContext