Chapter 7. Advanced AWT

In this chapter

• The Rendering Pipeline

• Shapes

• Areas

• Strokes

• Paint

• Coordinate Transformations

• Clipping

• Transparency and Composition

• Rendering Hints

• Readers and Writers for Images

• Image Manipulation

• Printing

• The Clipboard

• Drag and Drop

• Platform Integration

You can use the methods of the Graphics class to create simple drawings. Those methods are sufficient for simple applets and applications, but they fall short when you create complex shapes or when you require complete control over the appearance of the graphics. The Java 2D API is a more sophisticated class library that you can use to produce high-quality drawings. In this chapter, we will give you an overview of that API.

We’ll then turn ...

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