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Foil 53 AWT Component: Canvas

From Java Tutorial 98- 3: Graphics and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken
API for class Canvas
1 Canvas is a simple class that is used to draw on as in artist's canvas. They cannot contain other components. This is the class on which you use the graphics methods.
2 Canvases can be included as parts of other Containers. In this case, you may need to obtain a Graphics object for drawing:
  • Canvas drawcanvas;
  • Graphics drawgraphics = drawcanvas.getGraphics();
    • drawgraphics.drawString("Graph Label");
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