Core Java™ 2 Volume II - Advanced Features, Seventh Edition

Paint

When you fill a shape, its inside is covered with paint. You use the setPaint method to set the paint style to an object with a class that implements the Paint interface. The Java 2D API provides three such classes:

• The Color class implements the Paint interface. To fill shapes with a solid color, simply call setPaint with a Color object, such as

  g2.setPaint(Color.red);
  

• The GradientPaint class varies colors by interpolating between two given color values (see Figure 7-16).

  Figure 7-16. Gradient paint

  

• The TexturePaint class fills an area with repetitions of an image (see Figure 7-17).

  Figure 7-17. Texture paint

You construct a GradientPaint ...