Chapter 19. Drawing in a Window
In this chapter you'll look at how you can draw using the Java 2D facilities that are part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). You'll explore how you draw in an applet and in an application. You'll investigate how you can combine the event-handling capability that you learned about in the previous chapter with the drawing facilities you'll explore in this chapter to implement an interactive graphical user interface for creating a sketch.
By the end of this chapter you will have learned:
What components are available for creating a GUI
How coordinates are defined for drawing on a component
How you implement drawing on a component
How to structure the components in a window for drawing
What kinds of shapes you can draw on a component
How you implement mouse listener methods to enable interactive drawing operations
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