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Foil 10 The java.awt.Color Classes

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


Color c = new Color (redvalue, greenvalue, bluevalue); // red/green/bluevalue can be specified as integers in 0.....255 or floating point numbers from 0 to 1.
c is generated as a Color in RGB format.
graphicsobject.setColor(c); // sets current color in graphicsobject which is used for all subsequent operations
graphicsobject.setFont(particularFont); // similarily sets font hereafter as on previous page
There are particular Color instances already defined such as
Color.white equivalent to Color(255,255,255)
Color.black as equivalent to Color(0,0,0)
Color.pink as equivalent to Color(255,175,175)



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