The java.awt.Color Classes
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
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)
- also orange, cyan, magenta, yellow, gray, lightGray,
- darkGray, red, green, blue