Working with color and font

Working with color and font

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Objective

On completion of this period, you would be
able to know

• Working with color
• Working with font

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Recap

In the previous class, you have leant

• Displaying information within a window
• Working with Graphics

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Working with Color

• Java supports color in a portable, device-
independent fashion
• The AWT color system allows you to specify any
color you want
• It then finds the best match for that color, given
the limits of the display hardware currently
executing your program or applet
• Color is encapsulated by the Color class

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Working with Color contd..

• The most commonly used constructors are
shown here
– Color(int red, int green, int blue)
– Color(int rgbValue)
– Color(float red, float green, float blue)
• The first constructor takes three integers that
specify the color as a mix of red, green, and blue
• These values must be between 0 and 255, as in
this example
• new Color(255, 100, 100); // light red


Working with Color contd..

• The second color constructor takes a single integer that
contains the mix of red, green, and blue packed into an
integer.
• The integer is organized with red in bits 16 to 23, green
in bits 8 to 15, and blue in bits 0 to 7
• Here is an example of this constructor
– int newRed = (0xff000000 | (0xc0 << 16) | (0x00 << 8) | 0x00);
– Color darkRed = new Color(newRed);
• The final constructor, Color(float, float, float), takes three
float values (between 0.0 and 1.0) that specify the
relative mix of red, green, and blue


Setting the Current Graphics Color

• By default, graphics objects are drawn in the
current foreground color
• You can change this color by calling the
Graphics method setColor( )
– void setColor(Color newColor)
– Here, newColor specifies the new drawing color
• You can obtain the current color by calling
getColor( ), shown here
– Color getColor( )


A Color Demonstration Applet
// Demonstrate color.
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
/*
<applet code="ColorDemo" width=300 height=200>
</applet>
*/
public class ColorDemo extends Applet {
// draw lines
public void paint(Graphics g) {
Color c1 = new Color(255, 100, 100);
Color c2 = new Color(100, 255, 100);
Color c3 = new Color(100, 100, 255);
g.setColor(c1);
g.drawLine(0, 0, 100, 100);


A Color Demonstration Applet contd..
g.drawLine(0, 100, 100, 0);
g.setColor(c2);
g.drawLine(40, 25, 250, 180);
g.drawLine(75, 90, 400, 400);
g.setColor(c3);
g.drawLine(20, 150, 400, 40);
g.drawLine(5, 290, 80, 19);
g.setColor(Color.red);
g.drawOval(10, 10, 50, 50);
g.fillOval(70, 90, 140, 100);
g.setColor(Color.blue);
g.drawOval(190, 10, 90, 30);
g.drawRect(10, 10, 60, 50);
g.setColor(Color.cyan);
g.fillRect(100, 10, 60, 50);
g.drawRoundRect(190, 10, 60, 50, 15, 15);
}
}

Working with Fonts

• The AWT supports multiple type fonts
• Fonts are encapsulated by the Font class
• Several of the methods defined by Font class


Creating and Selecting a Font

• To select a new font, you must first construct a
Font object that describes that font
• One Font constructor has this general form
– Font(String fontName, int fontStyle, int
pointSize)
– Here, fontName specifies the name of the
desired font


Creating and Selecting a Font contd..

• To use a font that you have created, you must
select it using setFont( ), which is defined by
Component
• It has this general form
– void setFont(Font fontObj)
– Here, fontObj is the object that contains the desired
font
• The following program outputs a sample of each
standard font
• Each time you click the mouse within its window,
a new font is selected and its name is displayed


// Show fonts.
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
/*
<applet code="SampleFonts" width=200 height=100>
</applet>
*/
public class SampleFonts extends Applet {
int next = 0;
Font f;
String msg;
public void init() {
f = new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 12);



msg = "Dialog";
setFont(f);
addMouseListener(new MyMouseAdapter(this));
}
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawString(msg, 4, 20);
}
}
class MyMouseAdapter extends MouseAdapter {
SampleFonts sampleFonts;
public MyMouseAdapter(SampleFonts sampleFonts) {
this.sampleFonts = sampleFonts;
}



public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me) {
// Switch fonts with each mouse click.
sampleFonts.next++;
switch(sampleFonts.next) {
case 0:
sampleFonts.f = new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 12);
sampleFonts.msg = "Dialog";
break;
case 1:
sampleFonts.f = new Font("DialogInput", Font.PLAIN, 12);
sampleFonts.msg = "DialogInput";
break;
case 2:
sampleFonts.f = new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, 12);
sampleFonts.msg = "SansSerif";
break;



case 3:
sampleFonts.f = new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, 12);
sampleFonts.msg = "Serif";
break;
case 4:
sampleFonts.f = new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN,
12);
sampleFonts.msg = "Monospaced";
break;
}
if(sampleFonts.next == 4) sampleFonts.next = -1;
sampleFonts.setFont(sampleFonts.f);
sampleFonts.repaint();
}
}



• Sample output from this program is shown here:

Fig. 69.1 Font creation and selection


Summary

• In this class we have discussed
– The constructors and methods of
• Color
• Font classes
– The relevant programs


Quiz

1. What is the default color for drawing of Graphics
object ?
a) Black
b) Current background color
c) Blue
d) Current foreground color


Frequently Asked Questions

1. List the constructors and methods of Color class
2. List the constructors and methods of Font class


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