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Foil 3 The java.awt.Graphics class

From Java Tutorial 98- 3: Graphics and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit NAVO Tutorial -- Sept 23 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken


The AWT has two different schemes for creating all or parts of applet windows:
  • A high-level scheme where a Layout manager decides how to place components like buttons and textfields in the window (described later).
  • A low-level scheme where methods draw graphics objects to the window and must say where to place them in terms of pixels.
(0,0) (width,0)
(0,height) (width,height)
Java Graphics Pixel Coordinate System



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