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Foil 91 The java.awt.Color Classes

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 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.
2 c is generated as a Color in RGB format.
3 graphicsobject.setColor(c); // sets current color in graphicsobject which is used for all subsequent operations
4 graphicsobject.setFont(particularFont); // similarily sets font hereafter as on previous page
5 There are particular Color instances already defined such as
6 Color.white equivalent to Color(255,255,255)
7 Color.black as equivalent to Color(0,0,0)
8 Color.pink as equivalent to Color(255,175,175)

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