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Foil 3 The java.awt.Graphics Class

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 3:Graphics and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
java.awt has several important classes including Graphics, Color, Font and FontMetrics
Graphics class has primitives to construct basic two dimensional images with methods drawString (text), drawLine, drawRect, fillRect, drawRoundRect (for a rectangle with rounded corners!), draw3DRect (to get shadow effect as in buttons), drawPolygon (general polygon), drawOval, fillOval
There are also Image, Font, Color operations

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