Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

13.3 Color Control

Class Color declares methods and constants for manipulating colors in a Java program. The predeclared color constants are summarized in Fig. 13.3, and several color methods and constructors are summarized in Fig. 13.4. Two of the methods in Fig. 13.4 are Graphics methods that are specific to colors.

Fig. 13.3 | Color constants and their RGB values.

Fig. 13.4 | Color methods and color-related Graphics methods.

Every color is created from a red, a green and a blue value. Together these are called RGB values. All three RGB components ...