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Foil 8 The java.awt.Color Classes

From Java Tutorial, July 1, 1996 CSC499(JSU) CPS406/606 -- Fall Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox

Drawing more simple shapes with new colors
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



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